Templat...cedural(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Template::Plugin::Procedural — Base class for procedural plugins.

okay so this is the Template::Plugin::Procedural(3) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally here to make plugin subroutines get called directly instead of as methods. bestie, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

package Template::Plugin::LWPSimple;
use base qw(Template::Plugin::Procedural);
use LWP::Simple;  # exports 'get'
1;

[% USE LWPSimple %]
[% LWPSimple.get("http://www.tt2.org/") %]

that's the setup, periodt. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Template::Plugin::Procedural is a base class for Template Toolkit plugins that causes defined subroutines to be called directly rather than as a method. Essentially this means that subroutines will not receive the class name or object as its first argument. it's giving “skip the OO handshake, just run the sub.” ✨

This is most useful when creating plugins for modules that normally work by exporting subroutines that do not expect such additional arguments. lowkey iconic for wrapping those modules. 🫶

Despite the fact that subroutines will not be called in an OO manner, inheritance still functions as normal. A class that uses Template::Plugin::Procedural can be subclassed and both subroutines defined in the subclass and subroutines defined in the original class will be available to the Template Toolkit and will be called without the class/object argument. no cap, the subclass still gets the procedural treatment. 👑

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com> <http://www.twoshortplanks.com>

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2002 Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com>

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

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Template
• Template::Plugin

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💖 that's the page, bestie — source/version is perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-06-23. 💖