UNIVER...ect::ID(3pm)

💖 UNIVERSAL::Object::ID 💖

okay bestie, so the page you're reading is literally titled UNIVER...ect::ID(3pm) — yes, the terminal cut it off like that, she's dramatic 💅 — and underneath all that abbreviation it's UNIVERSAL::Object::ID, living in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. And it does exactly one absurd little thing: it gives every object a unique identifier. every single one. no cap. 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

UNIVERSAL::Object::ID — supply a unique object identifier to every object 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use DateTime;  # for example
use UNIVERSAL::Object::ID;

my $date = DateTime->now;

print $date->object_id;

like… that's it. you load one module and suddenly your DateTime object is out here knowing its own object_id. iconic behavior, honestly. 💖

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

The way this works is: loading UNIVERSAL::Object::ID makes the Object::ID role available to every object. not some objects. not your objects. every object. 🫶

⚠️ bestie, use at your own risk — polluting UNIVERSAL is not to be taken lightly. this is a big deal and you should treat it like one. 💀

The best place to use this module is in your own personal or internal use code, rather than in a widely distributed software library. basically: keep it in-house, don't ship it to the whole world. 🏠✨

Or!! you can use Method::Lexical to safely apply the UNIVERSAL effect to just your lexical scope. so the chaos is contained, which is lowkey the responsible main character move. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Object::ID
• Method::Lexical

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈

cute little sign-off: this was served up courtesy of perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-06-16, and stamped with the same abbrev'd UNIVER...ect::ID(3pm) energy it started with. mwah. 😭💜