CLASS(3)

🎀 CLASS(3) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for CLASS(3) — it’s giving tiny module, huge convenience. we’re gonna get you comfy with it, fr fr. 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

CLASS — Alias for __PACKAGE__

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

  package Foo;
  use CLASS;

  print CLASS;                  # Foo
  print "My class is $CLASS\n"; # My class is Foo

  sub bar { 23 }

  print CLASS->bar;     # 23
  print $CLASS->bar;    # 23

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so CLASS and $CLASS are both literally synonyms for __PACKAGE__. They’re just easier to type — that’s the whole slay. 🫶

$CLASS also has the extra benefit of working inside strings — iconic behavior, no cap. 🎀

🧚 NOTES 🧚

• CLASS is a constant, not a subroutine call.
• $CLASS is a plain variable — it is not tied.
• There is no performance loss for using CLASS over __PACKAGE__ except the loading of the module. (Thanks Juerd.) 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• From February 2022 onward: Jacques Deguest <jack@deguest.jp>
• Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

💜 LICENSE 💜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

perlmod(1)

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kisses bestie 💋 this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2023-09-24, and yeah it’s CLASS(3) — go be iconic with your package names 🫶✨