ExtUti...unction(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the ExtUtils::Builder::Action::Function(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation 🫶. This is an action class — ExtUtils::Builder::Action::Function — for perl function calls. It’s giving very specific, very useful main character energy 💅✨.

💖 VERSION 💖

version 0.020 — periodt, that’s the version 🎀.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here’s the demo, literally:

        my $action = ExtUtils::Builder::Action::Function->new(
            module    => 'Frob',
            function  => 'nicate',
            arguments => [ target => 'bar' ],
        );
        $action->execute();
        say "Executed: ", join ' ', @$_, target => 'bar' for $action->to_command;

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This Action class is a specialization of Action::Perl that makes the common case of calling a simple function easier 🧚. The first statement in the synopsis is roughly equivalent to:

        my $action = ExtUtils::Builder::Action::Code->new(
            code       => 'Frob::nicate(target => 'bar')',
            module     => ['Frob'],
            message    => 'Calling Frob::nicate',
        );

Except that it serializes more cleanly ✨.

🦋 ATTRIBUTES 🦋

🍓 arguments

These are additional arguments to the action, that are passed on regardless of how the action is run. This attribute is optional — no cap, it’s optional 💖.

🌼 module

The module to be loaded.

💜 function

The name of the function to be called.

⭐ exports

If always, the function is assumed to be exported by the module. If explicit, it’s assumed to need explicit exporting (e.g. use Module 'function';).

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> — yes bestie, that’s the author 🌈.

🌟 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌟

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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mwah 💋 — page source: perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-23 🎀✨