Pod::Pe...:BaseTo(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo(3pm) — literally the Base for Pod::Perldoc formatters. That's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the skeleton, no cap:

package Pod::Perldoc::ToMyFormat;

use parent qw( Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo );
...

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This package is meant as a base of Pod::Perldoc formatters, like Pod::Perldoc::ToText, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, etc. It's giving “parent class energy” for the formatter girlies. 🎀

It provides default implementations for the methods:

• is_pageable
• write_with_binmode
• output_extension
• _perldoc_elem

The concrete formatter must implement:

• new
• parse_from_file

So yeah, those two are mandatory, bestie. The base class handles the defaults, but your actual formatter has to show up with its own new and parse_from_file. Periodt. 💖

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🔎 SEE ALSO 🔎

• perldoc

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS 🎀

Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sean M. Burke.

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

So like, yes bestie, free software slay, but no warranty, fr fr. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Current maintainer: Mark Allen <mallen@cpan.org>
• Past contributions from: brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>, Adriano R. Ferreira <ferreira@cpan.org>, Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

Shoutout to everyone who contributed — iconic behavior. 🌈

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okay bye bestie 💜 — this footer energy came from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03, for Pod::Pe...:BaseTo(3pm).