NAME

       Sub::Install - install subroutines into packages easily

VERSION

       version 0.927

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.

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 <rjbs@cpan.org>

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.