Class::MOP::Module(3)

💖 Class::MOP::Module 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Class::MOP::Module page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, aka the manual you landed on at 3am because your metaobject situation is giving chaos. sit down, hydrate, we're doing this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Class::MOP::Module — Module Meta Object 💅

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 2.4000 — yes she has a version, yes she's proud of it ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the way that a module works here is: a module is basically a Class::MOP::Package but with metadata. And in our case, that metadata is literally just the version and the authority. that's it. that's the whole vibe. lowkey elegant, ngl 💜

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🎀 INHERITANCE 🎀

Class::MOP::Module is a subclass of Class::MOP::Package. it's giving nepo baby but make it metaobject, and honestly? we love her for it 👑

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⭐ METHODS ⭐

💫 Class::MOP::Module->create($package, %options) 💫

She overrides create from Class::MOP::Package to hook you up with these additional options:

• "version" — a version number, and it gets installed into the $VERSION package global variable. so like, the whole point 🌟
• "authority" — an authority, and it gets installed into the $AUTHORITY package global variable.

🚨 okay important: authority is a legacy field and its use is not recommended. it's the old money of options. respect the history, don't use it, periodt 💀

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💫 $metamodule->version 💫

This is a read-only attribute, and it returns the $VERSION of the package — if one exists. if not? nothing, bestie. no version, no vibes 🙈

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💫 $metamodule->authority 💫

This is a read-only attribute which returns the $AUTHORITY of the package, if one exists. same energy as above, just the legacy one 🎀

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💫 $metamodule->identifier 💫

This constructs a string which combines the name, version and authority. it's the glow-up collage of all three fields at once, slay 💅

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💫 Class::MOP::Module->meta 💫

This will return a Class::MOP::Class instance for this class. meta about the meta. it's metas all the way down and honestly that's iconic 🌈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

look at this friend group, they ate and left no crumbs:

• Stevan Little <stevan@cpan.org>
• Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
• Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>
• Shawn M Moore <sartak@cpan.org>
• יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
• Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>
• Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
• Matt S Trout <mstrout@cpan.org>

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go off, remix it, just keep it free fr fr 🫶

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and that's the page bestie!! this one came from perl v5.42.0 and was dated 2025-07-25, so shoutout to that exact snapshot of the Class::MOP::Module(3) manpage for making this whole yap possible 💖✨ go forth and metaobject responsibly 🌸🦋