perldoc > Sub::Install(3pm)

NAME
    Sub::Install - install subroutines into packages easily

VERSION
    version 0.929

SYNOPSIS
      use Sub::Install;

      Sub::Install::install_sub({
        code => sub { ... },
        into => $package,
        as   => $subname
      });

DESCRIPTION
    This module makes it easy to install subroutines into packages without the unsightly mess of "no
    strict" or typeglobs lying about where just anyone can see them.

PERL VERSION
    This library should run on perls released even an extremely long time ago. It should work on any
    version of perl released in the last ten years.

    Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required
    version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no
    promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

FUNCTIONS
  install_sub
      Sub::Install::install_sub({
       code => \&subroutine,
       into => "Finance::Shady",
       as   => 'launder',
      });

    This routine installs a given code reference into a package as a normal subroutine. The above is
    equivalent to:

      no strict 'refs';
      *{"Finance::Shady" . '::' . "launder"} = \&subroutine;

    If "into" is not given, the sub is installed into the calling package.

    If "code" is not a code reference, it is looked for as an existing sub in the package named in
    the "from" parameter. If "from" is not given, it will look in the calling package.

    If "as" is not given, and if "code" is a name, "as" will default to "code". If "as" is not
    given, but if "code" is a code ref, Sub::Install will try to find the name of the given code ref
    and use that as "as".

    That means that this code:

      Sub::Install::install_sub({
        code => 'twitch',
        from => 'Person::InPain',
        into => 'Person::Teenager',
        as   => 'dance',
      });

    is the same as:

      package Person::Teenager;

      Sub::Install::install_sub({
        code => Person::InPain->can('twitch'),
        as   => 'dance',
      });

  reinstall_sub
    This routine behaves exactly like "install_sub", but does not emit a warning if warnings are on
    and the destination is already defined.

  install_installers
    This routine is provided to allow Sub::Install compatibility with Sub::Installer. It installs
    "install_sub" and "reinstall_sub" methods into the package named by its argument.

     Sub::Install::install_installers('Code::Builder'); # just for us, please
     Code::Builder->install_sub({ name => $code_ref });

     Sub::Install::install_installers('UNIVERSAL'); # feeling lucky, punk?
     Anything::At::All->install_sub({ name => $code_ref });

    The installed installers are similar, but not identical, to those provided by Sub::Installer.
    They accept a single hash as an argument. The key/value pairs are used as the "as" and "code"
    parameters to the "install_sub" routine detailed above. The package name on which the method is
    called is used as the "into" parameter.

    Unlike Sub::Installer's "install_sub" will not eval strings into code, but will look for named
    code in the calling package.

EXPORTS
    Sub::Install exports "install_sub" and "reinstall_sub" only if they are requested.

  exporter
    Sub::Install has a never-exported subroutine called "exporter", which is used to implement its
    "import" routine. It takes a hashref of named arguments, only one of which is currently
    recognize: "exports". This must be an arrayref of subroutines to offer for export.

    This routine is mainly for Sub::Install's own consumption. Instead, consider Sub::Exporter.

SEE ALSO
    Sub::Installer
        This module is (obviously) a reaction to Damian Conway's Sub::Installer, which does the same
        thing, but does it by getting its greasy fingers all over UNIVERSAL. I was really happy
        about the idea of making the installation of coderefs less ugly, but I couldn't bring myself
        to replace the ugliness of typeglobs and loosened strictures with the ugliness of UNIVERSAL
        methods.

    Sub::Exporter
        This is a complete Exporter.pm replacement, built atop Sub::Install.

EXTRA CREDITS
    Several of the tests are adapted from tests that shipped with Damian Conway's Sub-Installer
    distribution.

AUTHOR
    Ricardo SIGNES <cpan AT semiotic.systems>

CONTRIBUTORS
    *   Chad Granum <chad.granum AT dreamhost.com>

    *   David Steinbrunner <dsteinbrunner AT pobox.com>

    *   Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs AT codesimply.com>

    *   Ricardo Signes <rjbs AT semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2005 by Ricardo SIGNES.

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