Spoon(3)

💫 Spoon(3) 💫

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about Spoon — a User Contributed Perl doc, no cap, and it's genuinely giving spiffy application building framework energy ✨

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🥄 NAME 🥄

Spoon — A Spiffy Application Building Framework 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Like, this is the whole vibe, verbatim:

Out of the Cutlery Drawer
And onto the Dinner Table

poetry?? in MY manpage?? it's more likely than you think 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So Spoon is an Application Framework, and it's designed primarily for building Social Software web applications. The Kwiki wiki software is built on top of Spoon — so yeah, it's the backbone, the main character energy behind the scenes 👑

Spoon::Base is the primary base class for all the Spoon::* modules. And Spoon.pm inherits from Spiffy.pm. family tree!! 🌳

⚠️ lowkey important: Spoon is not an application in and of itself. (As compared to Kwiki.) You need to build your own applications from it. it's a framework, not a finished slay — you gotta do the slaying yourself 🫶

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kwiki
• Spork
• Spiffy
• IO::All

the whole cutlery drawer fr fr 🍴

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🕯️ DEDICATION 🕯️

This project is dedicated to the memory of Iain "Spoon" Truskett. 💜

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🏆 CREDIT 🏆

Dave Rolsky and Chris Dent have made major contributions to this code base. Of particular note — and bestie, this is a big one — Dave removed the memory cycles from the hub architecture, allowing safe use with mod_perl. 🔥

(Dave, Chris and myself currently work at Socialtext, where this framework is heavily used.) no big deal, just casually mentioning it 💅

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

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⚖️ COPYRIGHT ⚖️

Copyright (c) 2004. Brian Ingerson. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2006. Ingy döt Net. All rights reserved.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

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🙈 POD ERRORS 🙈

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

Around line 57: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'döt'. Assuming UTF-8

(it's giving unbothered, moisturized, in its lane — the parser just shrugged and assumed UTF-8 😭💀)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! ✨ this one came from the perl v5.42.0 docs, dated 2025-07-25, and it lives under Spoon(3) in User Contributed Perl Documentation. go build something iconic with it 🎀🦋💖