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NAME

Perl6::Signature - Parse, query, and pretty-print Perl 6 signatures

SYNOPSIS

use Perl6::Signature;

my $sig = Perl6::Signature->parse(
    ':($self: $x, Int $y = 42 where { $_ % 2 == 0 }, :$z is copy)');

print $sig->s_requiredPositionalCount;      # 1
print $sig->s_positionalList->[0]->p_label  # "x"
print $sig->s_namedList->[0]->p_hasAccess;  # "copy"

print $sig->to_string;
    # ":($self: $x, Int $y = 42 where { $_ % 2 == 0 }, :$z is copy)"

DESCRIPTION

Alpha release - everything here is subject to change

Perl6::Signature models routine signatures as specified in Synopsis 6 of the Perl 6 documentation. These signatures offer a rich language for expressing type constraints, default values, and the optionality (among other things) of routine parameters.

Included is a parser for the Signature language, accessors and convenience methods for querying Signature objects, and a pretty-printer for producing their canonical textual representation.

MODULE LAYOUT OVERVIEW

Perl6::Signature contains a Parse::RecDescent-based parser for signatures.

Perl6::Signature::Val is our local base class for Perl 6 values. It doesn't do anything interested in itself, but if this distribution is bridged to another Perl 6-modeling distribution, this could be the first insertion point for glue methods. The next two modules subclass it.

Perl6::Signature::Val::Sig and Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam model full signatures and their consituent parameters. This is where you go to quiery and pretty-print your parsed objects.

FUNCTIONS

Perl6::Signature

Perl6::Signature->parse(STRING)

Parse a well-formed signature specification into a Perl6::Signature::Val::Sig object. Returns undef on failure, and in some cases can die. (This needs to be regularized.)

CAVEAT #1: we do "best effort" parsing for default values. Simple literals are okay; complex expressions may not be.

CAVEAT #2: default value specifications are not evaluated by Perl6::Signature, not-in-scope errors are not raised, and constant folding is not performed. There may be semantic implications to this.

CAVEAT #3: we similarly do "best effort" to parse dynamic constraints ("where {....}" blocks). Funky code might well fail to parse correctly.

Perl6::Signature::Val::Sig

$sig->to_string

Pretty-print a Sig object into canonical textual form.

"Canonical form" means regualar whitespace, implicit "!" on mandatory positional parameters, impicit "?" on optional named parameters, and so on. Code from dynamic constraints is reproduced verbatim.

has 's_invocant' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam', required => 0);
has 's_requiredPositionalCount' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Int');
has 's_requiredNames' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'HashRef'); # Set of names
has 's_positionalList' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef[Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam]');
has 's_namedList' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef[Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam]');
has 's_slurpyScalarList' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef', required => 0);
has 's_slurpyArray' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam', required => 0);
has 's_slurpyHash' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam', required => 0);
has 's_slurpyCode' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam', required => 0);
has 's_slurpyCapture' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam', required => 0);

Perl6::Signature::Val::SigParam

$param->to_string(%args)

Pretty-print a SigParam object into canonical form. Note that a SigParam doesn't know whether it is required or optional; nor whether it is positional or named. This must be supplied by the Sig container.

has 'p_variable' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str');
has 'p_types' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef'); # of types
has 'p_constraints' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'ArrayRef'); # of code
has 'p_unpacking' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Perl6::Signature::Val::Sig|Undef', required => 0);
has 'p_default' => (is => 'rw', required => 0);
has 'p_label' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str');
has 'p_slots' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'HashRef');
has 'p_hasAccess' => (is => 'rw', ); # ro/rw/copy
has 'p_isRef' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool');
has 'p_isContext' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool');
has 'p_isLazy' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Bool');

SEE ALSO

http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Parameters_and_arguments
Moose
Parse::RecDescent

AUTHORS

Gaal Yahas, <gaal at forum2.org>

Contributions by:

Yuval Kogman, C <nothingmuch@woobling.org >>

Florian Ragwitz, C <rafl@debian.org >>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-perl6-signature at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Perl6-Signature. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Perl6::Signature

You can also contact the maintainer at the address above or look for information at:

COPYRIGHT (The "MIT" License)

Copyright 2008 Gaal Yahas.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.