NAME

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

VERSION

       version 2.2206

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@cpan.org>

       •   Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

       •   Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>

       •   Shawn M Moore <sartak@cpan.org>

       •   יובל קוג'מן (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

       •   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

       •   Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>

       •   Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

       •   Matt S Trout <mstrout@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.