Text::Q...Optimize(3)

💅 Text::Q...Optimize(3) — no wait, bestie, the NAME says Text::Query::Parse

okay so real talk — this page is filed under Text::Q...Optimize(3) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, but the NAME line inside is literally Text::Query::Parse. That's the vibe we're working with, and yes it's a little chaotic, but we roll with it. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Text::Query::Parse — the base class for query parsers. that's the whole name. iconic, brief, to the point. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's how you'd actually subclass this thing, copy it exactly bestie:

package Text::Query::OptimizeSmart;

use Text::Query::Optimize;

use vars qw(@ISA);

@ISA = qw(Text::Query::Optimize);

like, you make your own package, you use the base module, you declare @ISA, and boom — inheritance. slay. 💖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so this module is a virtual base class for query optimizers. imagine it as the blueprint, the blueprint-est blueprint, the template the other optimizers are built from. ✨

it defines the optimize method — and that's the one the Text::Query object calls to optimize the internal query. so like, Text::Query is the one hitting up optimize, and optimize is the one doing the actual work (or, you know, in the default case, doing absolutely nothing, which is also a mood). 💀

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

• optimize (INTERNAL) — takes the INTERNAL argument and returns it after optimization. and the default implementation? it returns the argument untouched. no cap. it just hands it right back, pristine, unbothered, main character energy. 🦋

💡 lowkey important: this is a virtual base class, so the default optimize is basically a no-op placeholder. it's giving "I'm just the base, my children will handle it." if you want real optimization you subclass and override. 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Text::Query(3) — go read that one too, bestie, it's the whole reason this exists. 😭

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Eric Bohlman — ebohlman@netcom.com 💌
• Loic Dachary — loic@senga.org 💌

two legends, one base class. respect. 🫡

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and optimize (or don't, the default literally doesn't) 💅✨

signing off from perl v5.38.2, dated 2024-07-13, shipped in User Contributed Perl Documentation — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 🎀💖