Zonema...NSArray(3pm)

💖 Zonemaster::Engine::NSArray 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the perl docs for Zonemaster::Engine::NSArray — it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's genuinely such a clever little class, i'm obsessed 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Zonemaster::Engine::NSArray — a class that implements arrays which lazily look up name server addresses from their names. like, it doesn't do the work until it absolutely has to. main character energy fr 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tie @ary, 'Zonemaster::Engine::NSArray', @ns_names

that's it, that's the whole vibe. you tie a regular old array to this class and hand it a list of names, and it handles the rest 🌸

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — this class gets used for the "glue" and "ns" attributes of the Zonemaster::Engine::Zone class. you seed it with a list of names, and those names get expanded into proper Zonemaster::Engine::Nameserver objects on demand — not all at once, only when someone actually asks for them. iconic behavior, no cap 💖

⚠️ but be careful bestie!! watch out for Perl functions that act on whole arrays — especially foreach — because they will usually force the entire array to expand, which completely negates the whole point of the lazy-loading. the whole slay is ruined 😭 so like… don't do that unless you mean to.

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✨ METHODS ✨

these are all the methods that implement the Perl tie interface. they have no independent use — like, they only exist to make the tie magic work, that's their whole job 🧚

• TIEARRAY
• STORE
• STORESIZE
• FETCH
• FETCHSIZE
• EXISTS
• DELETE
• CLEAR
• PUSH
• UNSHIFT
• POP
• SHIFT
• SPLICE
• UNTIE

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Calle Dybedahl, <calle at init.se> — shoutout to the author, we love a legend 👑

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and that's a wrap bestie 🎀 this page comes to you courtesy of perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-03-21, in the Zonema...NSArray(3pm) era 💜 go forth and let your arrays be lazy (in the good way) ✨🦋