ch15.079_best

Perl Best Practices the source code

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##   Code fragment (Recommended) from Chapter 15 of "Perl Best Practices"   ##
##     Copyright (c) O'Reilly & Associates, 2005. All Rights Reserved.      ##
##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;


package Process::Queue;
use Carp;
{
    use overload (
        # Type coercions don't make sense for process queues...
        q{0+}   => sub { 
            croak( q{Can't numerify a Process::Queue } );
        },
 
        q{bool} => sub { 
            croak( q{Can't get the boolean value of a Process::Queue } );
        },
 
        q{""} => sub { 
            croak( q{Can't get the string value of a Process::Queue } );
        },
 
        # Use Perl standard behaviours for other operations...
        fallback => 1,
    );
 
    # etc.
}


my $proc_queue = bless {}, 'Process::Queue';

print $proc_queue;