NAME

Meta::Ds::Enumerated - enumerated class.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Enumerated.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.06

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Ds::Enumerated qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Ds::Enumerated->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This class is a base class for inheriting enumerated object which share a set of values from which they can be assigned.

FUNCTIONS

        new($)
        new_value($$)
        get_enum($)
        set($$)
        get($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

This is a constructor for the Meta::Ds::Enumerated object.

new_value($$)

This method will create a new variable initialized to a specific value.

get_enum()

This method is the method you should override. The method should return the Meta::Ds::Enum object which will be used to validate the values used in this type.

set($$)

This method will set the value of the variable.

get($)

This method will retrieve the value of the variable.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV more thumbnail code
        0.01 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.02 MV import tests
        0.03 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.04 MV website construction
        0.05 MV web site automation
        0.06 MV SEE ALSO section fix

SEE ALSO

strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.