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.

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.