MooseX...::Array(3pm)

💖 MooseX::AttributeHelpers::MethodProvider::Array — but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the star of the show is MooseX::AttributeHelpers::MethodProvider::Array. yes that's a whole mouthful, we're gonna call it "the Array method provider" and move on with our lives 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

MooseX::AttributeHelpers::MethodProvider::Array — it's the method generator for MooseX::AttributeHelpers::Collection::Array. that's literally its whole job and it does it beautifully, no cap 🎀

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.25 — that's the one, that's the vibe check we're passing ✅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this is a role, right? and what a role does is hand you all the method generators for MooseX::AttributeHelpers::Collection::Array. that's it. that's the tea. it generates methods, you use methods, everyone's happy 🌈

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👑 METHODS 👑

• meta — yes queen, the meta method is here, iconic as always

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🍓 PROVIDED METHODS 🍓

lowkey the most important part. so listen — this module also consumes the List method providers, and if you wanna peek at those provided methods you gotta go read that documentation. we're not repeating them here, go look, i believe in you 🫶

here's the lineup of methods it hands you:

• get
• pop
• push
• set
• shift
• unshift
• clear
• delete
• insert
• splice
• sort_in_place
• accessor

and now the two that need actual sentences, because they have ✨lore✨:

• sort_in_place — sorts the array in place, meaning it actually modifies the value of the attribute. not a copy. the real one. the main character 💅

you can hand it an optional subroutine reference to sort with, exactly like you would with the core sort function. but — and this is the plot twist — instead of using $a and $b, you're gonna need to use $_[0] and $_[1] instead. write that down. tattoo it. whatever works bestie 😭

• accessor — this one's a two-for-one deal:
  • pass it one argument → it returns the value of the requested element
  • pass it two arguments → it sets the value of the requested element

one arg, you're reading. two args, you're writing. simple as 🧚

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

got bugs? bestie, we've all got bugs. submit them through the RT bug tracker at <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=MooseX-AttributeHelpers> — or if email is more your thing, bug-MooseX-AttributeHelpers@rt.cpan.org 📮

there's also a mailing list for users of this distribution, hanging out at <http://lists.perl.org/list/moose.html> 🌸

and if you wanna just talk about it, there's an irc channel for users of this distribution: #moose on irc.perl.org — that's <irc://irc.perl.org/#moose> 💬 come say hi, we don't bite

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com> — the legend themselves 👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Stevan Little and 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. free as in go wild, just respect the terms bestie 💖

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and that's the whole page, fr fr 🎀 this was generated from the User Contributed Perl Documentation for MooseX...::Array(3pm), running on perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-15. slay, go write some attribute helpers, i'm obsessed with you 💅✨