TAP::Base(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is TAP::Base(3pm) — straight from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide — and it's the base class that provides common functionality to TAP::Parser and TAP::Harness. That's the whole name drop, bestie: shared base-class energy for those two, no cap. 💅

🌸 VERSION 🌸

Version 3.50 — iconic, current, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the whole setup, fr fr:

package TAP::Whatever;

use base 'TAP::Base';

# ... later ...

my $thing = TAP::Whatever->new();

$thing->callback( event => sub {
    # do something interesting
} );

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

TAP::Base provides callback management. That's literally the description — callback management, and that's the whole vibe. It's giving "I handle callbacks so you can do something interesting" energy, iykyk. 💅

💅 METHODS 💅

🎀 Class Methods 🎀

• callback — install a callback for a named event. Named event? Callback installed? Slay. ✨
• get_time — hand you the current time, using Time::HiRes when it's available. High-res if the module is in the building, lowkey. ⏰
• time_is_hires — boop out true if the time from get_time is high resolution (i.e. if Time::HiRes is available). It's the resolution vibe check. 🦋
• get_times — pass back an array reference of the four-element list of CPU seconds, just like times in perlfunc. Fr fr, CPU seconds, four elements, array ref. 🔥

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