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- =head1 NAME
-
- base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- package Baz;
- use base qw(Foo Bar);
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- Roughly similar in effect to
-
- BEGIN {
- require Foo;
- require Bar;
- push @ISA, qw(Foo Bar);
- }
-
- Will also initialize the %FIELDS hash if one of the base classes has
- it. Multiple inheritance of %FIELDS is not supported. The 'base'
- pragma will croak if multiple base classes have a %FIELDS hash. See
- L<fields> for a description of this feature.
-
- When strict 'vars' is in scope I<base> also let you assign to @ISA
- without having to declare @ISA with the 'vars' pragma first.
-
- If any of the base classes are not loaded yet, I<base> silently
- C<require>s them. Whether to C<require> a base class package is
- determined by the absence of a global $VERSION in the base package.
- If $VERSION is not detected even after loading it, <base> will
- define $VERSION in the base package, setting it to the string
- C<-1, set by base.pm>.
-
- =head1 HISTORY
-
- This module was introduced with Perl 5.004_04.
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- L<fields>
-
- =cut
-
- package base;
-
- use 5.006_001;
- our $VERSION = "1.03";
-
- sub import {
- my $class = shift;
- my $fields_base;
- my $pkg = caller(0);
-
- foreach my $base (@_) {
- next if $pkg->isa($base);
- my $vglob;
- if ($vglob = ${"$base\::"}{VERSION} and *$vglob{SCALAR}) {
- $$vglob = "-1, set by base.pm" unless defined $$vglob;
- } else {
- eval "require $base";
- # Only ignore "Can't locate" errors from our eval require.
- # Other fatal errors (syntax etc) must be reported.
- die if $@ && $@ !~ /^Can't locate .*? at \(eval /;
- unless (%{"$base\::"}) {
- require Carp;
- Carp::croak("Base class package \"$base\" is empty.\n",
- "\t(Perhaps you need to 'use' the module ",
- "which defines that package first.)");
- }
- ${"$base\::VERSION"} = "-1, set by base.pm" unless defined ${"$base\::VERSION"};
- }
- push @{"$pkg\::ISA"}, $base;
-
- # A simple test like (defined %{"$base\::FIELDS"}) will
- # sometimes produce typo warnings because it would create
- # the hash if it was not present before.
- my $fglob;
- if ($fglob = ${"$base\::"}{"FIELDS"} and *$fglob{HASH}) {
- if ($fields_base) {
- require Carp;
- Carp::croak("Can't multiply inherit %FIELDS");
- } else {
- $fields_base = $base;
- }
- }
- }
- if ($fields_base) {
- require fields;
- fields::inherit($pkg, $fields_base);
- }
- }
-
- 1;
-