Function::Parameters::Info - Information about parameter lists
use Function::Parameters;
fun foo($x, $y, :$hello, :$world = undef) {}
my $info = Function::Parameters::info \&foo;
my @p0 = $info->invocants; # ()
my @p1 = $info->positional_required; # ('$x', '$y')
my @p2 = $info->positional_optional; # ()
my @p3 = $info->named_required; # ('$hello')
my @p4 = $info->named_optional; # ('$world')
my $p5 = $info->slurpy; # undef
my $min = $info->args_min; # 4
my $max = $info->args_max; # inf
my @invocants = Function::Parameters::info(method () { 42 })->invocants;
# ('$self')
my $slurpy = Function::Parameters::info(fun (@) {})->slurpy; # '@'
"Function::Parameters::info" returns objects of this class to describe parameter lists of functions. See below for "Parameter Objects". The following methods are available:
$info->invocants
Returns a list of parameter objects for the variables into which initial arguments are "shift"ed automatically (or a count in scalar context). This will usually return "()" for normal functions and "('$self')" for methods.
$info->positional_required
Returns a list of parameter objects for the required positional parameters (or a count in scalar context).
$info->positional_optional
Returns a list of parameter objects for the optional positional parameters (or a count in scalar context).
$info->named_required
Returns a list of parameter objects for the required named parameters (or a count in scalar context).
$info->named_optional
Returns a list of parameter objects for the optional named parameters (or a count in scalar context).
$info->slurpy
Returns a parameter object for the final array or hash that gobbles up all remaining arguments, or "undef" if no such thing exists.
$info->args_min
Returns the minimum number of arguments this function requires. This is computed as follows: Invocants and required positional parameters count 1 each. Optional parameters don’t count. Required named parameters count 2 each (key + value). Slurpy parameters don’t count either because they accept empty lists.
$info->args_max
Returns the maximum number of arguments this function accepts. This is computed as follows: If there are any named or slurpy parameters, the result is "Inf". Otherwise the result is the number of all invocants and positional parameters.
$info->invocant
Similar to "$info->invocants" above: Returns "undef" if the number of invocants is 0, a parameter object for the invocant if there is exactly 1, and throws an exception otherwise.
Parameter Objects
Many of the methods described above return parameter objects. These objects have two methods: "name", which returns the name of the parameter (as a plain string), and "type", which returns the corresponding type constraint object (or undef if there was no type specified).
This should be invisible if you don’t care about types because the objects also overload stringification to call "name". That is, if you treat parameter objects like strings, they behave like strings (i.e. their names).
Function::Parameters
Lukas Mai, "<l.mai at web.de>"
Copyright 2013, 2016 Lukas Mai.
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