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NAME
    metaclass - a pragma for installing and using Class::MOP metaclasses

VERSION
    version 2.2200

SYNOPSIS
      package MyClass;

      # use Class::MOP::Class
      use metaclass;

      # ... or use a custom metaclass
      use metaclass 'MyMetaClass';

      # ... or use a custom metaclass
      # and custom attribute and method
      # metaclasses
      use metaclass 'MyMetaClass' => (
          'attribute_metaclass' => 'MyAttributeMetaClass',
          'method_metaclass'    => 'MyMethodMetaClass',
      );

      # ... or just specify custom attribute
      # and method classes, and Class::MOP::Class
      # is the assumed metaclass
      use metaclass (
          'attribute_metaclass' => 'MyAttributeMetaClass',
          'method_metaclass'    => 'MyMethodMetaClass',
      );

      # if we'd rather not install a 'meta' method, we can do this
      use metaclass meta_name => undef;
      # or if we'd like it to have a different name,
      use metaclass meta_name => 'my_meta';

DESCRIPTION
    This is a pragma to make it easier to use a specific metaclass and a set of custom attribute and
    method metaclasses. It also installs a "meta" method to your class as well, unless "undef" is
    passed to the "meta_name" option.

    Note that if you are using Moose, you most likely do not want to be using this - look into
    Moose::Util::MetaRole instead.

AUTHORS
    *   Stevan Little <stevan AT cpan.org>

    *   Dave Rolsky <autarch AT urth.org>

    *   Jesse Luehrs <doy AT cpan.org>

    *   Shawn M Moore <sartak AT cpan.org>

    *   יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch AT woobling.org>

    *   Karen Etheridge <ether AT cpan.org>

    *   Florian Ragwitz <rafl AT debian.org>

    *   Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp AT cpan.org>

    *   Chris Prather <chris AT prather.org>

    *   Matt S Trout <mstrout AT cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

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