Task::Kensho::OOP(3)

💖 Task::Kensho::OOP — a whole manual page, bestie 💖

okay so. you found the page for Task::Kensho::OOP, which lives in the Task::Kensho::OOP(3) section of your friendly neighbourhood manual. it's giving "let's get you some object oriented Perl, queen." sit down, hydrate, and let's go ✨

✨ VERSION ✨

this is version 0.41. yes, that exact number, no rounding, no vibes-based estimating 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole entire flex:

> cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho::OOP

that's it. that's the move. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

first, a little lore, straight from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensho>:

Kenshō (見性) (C. Wu) is a Japanese term for enlightenment experiences - most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism - literally meaning "seeing one's nature"[1] or "true self."[2] It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object."[3]

and what does that have to do with Perl modules?? literally everything, bestie. Task::Kensho is a curated list of recommended modules for Enlightened Perl development. CPAN is wonderful, truly iconic, no notes — but there are too many wheels and you have to pick and choose amongst the various competing technologies. exhausting. so this exists 🎀

the plan is for Task::Kensho to be a rough testing ground for ideas that go into, among other things, the Enlightened Perl Organisation Extended Core (EPO-EC). 👑

the modules bundled by Task::Kensho are broken down into several categories and are still being considered. they're all taken from various top 100 most used perl modules lists and from discussions with various subject matter experts in the Perl Community. that said — and this is important, don't skip it — this bundle does not follow the guidelines established for the EPO-EC for peer review via industry advisers. okay? okay. 💀

starting in 2011, Task::Kensho split its sub-groups of modules into individually-installable tasks. each Task::Kensho sub-task is listed at the beginning of its section in this documentation. very organised. very demure.

when installing Task::Kensho itself, you'll be asked to install each sub-task in turn, or you can install individual tasks separately. these individual tasks will always install all their modules by default. that's the whole point — it facilitates the ease and simplicity the distribution aims to achieve. slay. ✨

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🌈 RECOMMENDED MODULES 🌈

🧚 Task::Kensho::OOP: Object Oriented Programming

here's the lineup, and yes, every single one is here, i would never do you like that:

• Moo — Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
• Moose — a postmodern object system for Perl5 (see also Task::Moose for a larger list of Moose extensions)
• MooseX::Aliases — easy aliasing of methods and attributes in Moose
• MooseX::Getopt — a Moose role for processing command line options
• MooseX::NonMoose — easy subclassing of non-Moose classes
• MooseX::Role::Parameterized — Moose roles with composition parameters
• MooseX::SimpleConfig — a Moose role for setting attributes from a simple configuration file
• MooseX::StrictConstructor — a Moose extension that makes your object constructors blow up on unknown attributes
• Package::Variant — Parameterizable packages
• Type::Tiny — tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraints
• namespace::autoclean — keep imports out of your namespace (Moose-aware)

that's eleven modules. eleven little icons. obsessed. 💖

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🦋 INSTALLING 🦋

since version 0.34, Task::Kensho has made use of the "optional_features" field in distribution metadata. this lets CPAN clients interact with you — yes you, main character — regarding which modules you wish to install. 🫶

the "cpanm" client requires interactive mode to be enabled for this to work:

cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho::OOP

don't forget the --interactive, bestie. it's literally the whole thing. 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• <http://www.enlightenedperl.org/>
• Perl::Dist::Strawberry

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💀 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS 💀

real talk time. this list is by no means comprehensive of the "Good" Modules on CPAN. nor is this necessarily the correct path for all developers. each of these modules has a perfectly acceptable replacement that may work better for you. no cap. 🫶

however — this is a path to good perl practice, and a starting place on the road to Enlightened Perl programming. and that's iconic behaviour. ✨

please report any bugs or feature requests to <https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues>.

bugs may be submitted through <https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues>.

there is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#epo" on "irc.perl.org" <irc://irc.perl.org/#epo>. come say hi, we don't bite 💜

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

🎀 CONTRIBUTORS 🎀

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
• Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org>
• Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com>
• Chris Nehren <apeiron@cpan.org>
• Mohammad S Anwar <mohammad.anwar@yahoo.com>
• Olaf Alders <olaf@wundersolutions.com>
• Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com>
• Rachel Kelly <rkellyalso@gmail.com>
• Shawn Sorichetti <shawn@coloredblocks.com>
• Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>
• Tina Müller <cpan2@tinita.de>

(eleven contributors, and yes, Dan Book shows up twice with two different emails — i'm not merging them, i'm not "fixing" it, that's what the page says and i respect the page 💅)

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💖 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE 💖

this software is copyright (c) 2008 by Chris Prather.

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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