ouse(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸 — ouse(3pm), User Contributed Perl Documentation 💖

okay so ouse is literally syntactic sugar to make Mouse one-liners easier, and this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for it. that’s the whole vibe. 🐭✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie, here’s the group-chat demo. first, create a Mouse class on the fly:

# create a Mouse class on the fly ...
perl -Mouse=Foo -e 'has bar => ( is=>q[ro], default => q[baz] ); print Foo->new->bar' # prints baz

# loads an existing class (Mouse or non-Mouse)
# and re-"opens" the package definition to make
# debugging/introspection easier
perl -Mouse=+My::Class -e 'print join ", " => __PACKAGE__->meta->get_method_list'

slay. that’s the energy. 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so ouse.pm is a simple source filter. what it does is add this exact line to the beginning of your script:

package $name; use Mouse;

and it was entirely created because typing this:

perl "-e'package Foo; use Mouse; ...'"

was annoying me... especially after getting used to having -Moose for Moose. periodt. 😭💖

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🫶 INTERFACE 🫶

ouse provides exactly one method and it is automatically called by perl:

• oose->import() — pass a package name to import to be used by the source filter.

ngl the raw manpage has a lil rogue > after the method name, like "oose->import()">, which is giving typo energy 🙈 — the method itself is still oose->import().

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🧚 DEPENDENCIES 🧚

you will need Filter::Simple and eventually Mouse. that’s the tea. 🍓

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⚠️ INCOMPATIBILITIES ⚠️

none reported. but the way that it is a source filter — yeah, it might have issues there. so keep that in mind, bestie. 💀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• oose — for perl -Moose -e '...'

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

for all intents and purposes, blame:

• Chris Prather <perigrin@cpan.org> — who wrote oose.pm, which was adapted for use by Mouse by:
• Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

Copyright 2008 Shawn M Moore.

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

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okay that’s the page, bestie 💖 footer vibes: perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-04-21, and it’s the ouse(3pm) page. mwah 🎀🦋