VERSION

This document describes Toolkit version 0.0.2

SYNOPSIS

use Toolkit;
# All your favorites are now available

DESCRIPTION

The Toolkit module provides a standard location to store modules that you use all the time, and then loads them for you automatically. For example, instead of always writing:

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Carp;
    use Smart::Comments;

in every program/module, you can just write:

    use Toolkit;

and put all your favorite modules in a file:

    > cat $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/ALWAYS/Modules
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Carp;
    use Smart::Comments;

You can also specify load-on-demand subroutines:

    > cat $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/prompt
    use IO::Prompt qw( prompt );
    > cat $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/say
    sub say { print @_, "\n" }

in which case Toolkit will install an "AUTOLOAD" that installs these subroutines the first time they're called.

INTERFACE

Calling:

    use Toolkit;

with no arguments loads any files in the directories:

    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/ALWAYS/
    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/DEFAULT/

or any of their subdirectories.

Calling:

    use Toolkit qw(foo bar);

any files in the directories:

    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/ALWAYS/
    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/foo/
    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/bar/

or any of their subdirectories.

Using the Toolkit module in any way also installs an "AUTOLOAD" subroutine which looks in:

    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/

for a file of the same name as the subroutine that is being autoloaded. That is, if you write:

    use Toolkit;
    baz();

Then the module looks for a file:

    $PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/baz

and executes it in a special namespace. After the file executes, Toolkit expects that the special namespace will now have a subroutine of the required name, which it then calls.

DIAGNOSTICS

Toolkit couldn't open %s

You specified a particular macro for Toolkit to load, but it wasn't able to read the corresponding file. Usually a file permissions problem or a non-existent macro.

Undefined subroutine %s called

You used a subroutine that Toolkit couldn't autoload. Did you misspell the subroutine name, or fail to install a file of the same name in your "$PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/" subdirectory.

Toolkit could not load %s (running %s didn't install it).

You used a subroutine that Toolkit tried to autoload. It found the corresponding file in the "$PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/" subdirectory, but executing that file didn't produce a subroutine of the correct name.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Toolkit uses the following directories and files to configure its behaviour:

$PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/ALWAYS/

Files in this directory are prepended to your source code whenever Toolkit is used

$PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/DEFAULT/

Files in this directory are prepended to your source code whenever Toolkit is used without arguments

$PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Macros/any file name

These files are prepended to your source code whenever Toolkit is used and their name is specified after the "use Toolkit".

$PERL5LIB/Toolkit/Runtime/

Files in this directory are executed to whenever Toolkit is used and a subroutine of the same name is called. They are expected to define the required subroutine.

DEPENDENCIES

Requires:

• File::Spec::Functions
• Filter::Simple
• version

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

AUTHOR

Damian Conway "<[email protected]>"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005, Damian Conway "<[email protected]>". All rights reserved.

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

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