Templa...::Class(3pm)

💖 Templa...::Class — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so you're reading the Template::Plugin::Class(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and honestly? it's giving tiny-but-mighty. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Template::Plugin::Class — the whole point is that it lets you call class methods on whatever arbitrary classes you want. no cap, that's it. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

[% USE foo = Class('Foo') %]
[% foo.bar %]

that's the whole vibe. USE it, then call a method on it. slay. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Template::Plugin::Class lets you call class methods on arbitrary classes. that's the tea. 🍵

one place this eats? Class::DBI-style applications, where you might do something like this:

[% USE cd = Class('Music::CD') %]
[% FOREACH disc = cd.retrieve_all %]
[% disc.artist %] - [% disc.title %]
[% END %]

iconic, honestly. loop over your CDs, print artist and title, done. main character energy fr fr 💿✨

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💀 CAVEATS 💀

okay so there's one lil thing. you will not be able to directly call AUTOLOAD or DESTROY methods on the remote class. 😭

this shouldn't be a huge hardship. the manpage said it, not me, but it's true.

so like… don't come for those two specifically. everything else? go off. 💅

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

apart from that caveat we just talked about, none currently known. zero. zilch. clean sheet. ✨

if you do find any, please contact the author. they wanna know, bestie. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

(icon. legend. the moment. 🙌)

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

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

so like, yes, go forth and redistribute, just keep it under the same terms as Perl itself. legal slay. ⚖️💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Template

go read that one too, it's the parent vibe iykyk 💜

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🎀 this lil writeup is perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-17, and it lives at Templa...::Class(3pm). mwah, go call some class methods 💅✨