Package::Reaper(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Package::Reaper(3) is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for Package::Reaper — pseudo-garbage-collection for packages. 🗑️✨

💖 VERSION 💖

version 1.106

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Package::Generator;
use Package::Reaper;

{
  my $package = Package::Generator->new_package;
  my $reaper  = Package::Reaper->new($package);
  ...
}

# at this point, $package stash has been deleted

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module lets you create simple objects that, when destroyed, delete a given package. This lets you approximate lexically scoped packages. 😭👑

🎀 INTERFACE 🎀

💅 new

my $reaper = Package::Reaper->new($package);

This returns the newly generated package reaper. When the reaper goes out of scope and is garbage collected, it will delete the symbol table entry for the package. 🗑️

📦 package

my $package = $reaper->package;

This method returns the package which will be reaped. 🎀

🚨 is_armed

if ($reaper->is_armed) { ... }

This method returns true if the reaper is armed and false otherwise. Reapers always start out armed. A disarmed reaper will not actually reap when destroyed. 💀

🛑 disarm

$reaper->disarm;

This method disarms the reaper, so that it will not reap the package when it is destroyed. 🙈

🔥 arm

$reaper->arm;

This method arms the reaper, so that it will reap its package when it is destroyed. By default, new reapers are armed. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org> 💖

🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2005 by Ricardo SIGNES. 🎀

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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