Netlist::Subclass(3)

🦋 Netlist::Subclass(3) 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to Netlist::Subclass(3) — the manual-name corner is User Contributed Perl Documentation, and this page is lowkey the communal glue for the Verilog::Netlist::* classes. It’s giving “common routines for all classes”, periodt. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

Verilog::Netlist::Subclass — common routines for all classes. No cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Use it like this, bestie:

package Verilog::Netlist::Something;
use Verilog::Netlist::Subclass;
use base qw(Verilog::Netlist::Subclass);

...

$self->info("We're here\n");
$self->warn("Things look bad\n");
$self->error("Things are even worse\n");
$self->exit_if_error();

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Verilog::Netlist::Subclass is the base class for all the Verilog::Netlist::* structures — main character energy for the whole family. It’s mainly there so $self->warn() and $self->error() produce consistent results. That’s the whole vibe: consistent reporting, no chaos-gremlin output. 🫶

🎀 MEMBER FUNCTIONS 🎀

• $self->error(Text...) — prints an error in a standard format. It’s the “okay this is bad” announcement, but make it consistent. 😭
• $self->errors() — returns the number of errors detected. The receipts, basically. 💀
• $self->exit_if_error() — exits the program if any errors were detected. It does not gently ask; it exits. 🔥
• $self->filename() — the filename number the entity was created in. Yes, “filename number” — that’s the wording, bestie. 🍓
• $self->info(Text...) — prints an informational message in a standard format. Little status update moment. ✨
• $self->lineno() — the line number the entity was created on. Location check! 📍
• $self->logger() — the class to report errors using, generally a Verilog::Netlist::Logger object. It’s the reporting bestie. 🧚
• $self->userdata(key), $self->userdata(key, data) — sets (with two arguments) or retrieves the specified key from an opaque hash. This may be used to store application data on the specified node. Opaque hash = mystery box, but useful. 🎁
• $self->warn(Text...) — prints a warning in a standard format. The “hmm bestie, heads up” of the API. 🙈
• $self->warnings() — returns the number of warnings detected. Count ’em. 🌈

🌟 DISTRIBUTION 🌟

Verilog-Perl is part of the free Verilog EDA software tool suite at https://www.veripool.org/. The latest version is available from CPAN and from https://www.veripool.org/verilog-perl. 💻✨

Copyright 2000-2024 by Wilson Snyder. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 or the Perl Artistic License Version 2.0. 📜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>. Iconic. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Verilog-Perl, Verilog::Netlist. Go read those too, iykyk. 🌸

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Cute little sign-off: this page came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — bye bestie, go report consistently 💅🎀