NAME

Acme::MetaSyntactic::List - Base class for simple lists of names

SYNOPSIS

    package Acme::MetaSyntactic::beatles;
    use Acme::MetaSyntactic::List;
    our @ISA = ( Acme::MetaSyntactic::List );
    __PACKAGE__->init();
    1;
    =head1 NAME
    
    Acme::MetaSyntactic::beatles - The fab four theme
    
    =head1 DESCRIPTION
    
    Ladies and gentlemen, I<The Beatles>. I<(hysteric cries)>
    =cut
    
    __DATA__
    # names
    john paul
    george ringo

DESCRIPTION

"Acme::MetaSyntactic::List" is the base class for all themes that are meant to return a random excerpt from a predefined list.

METHOD

Acme::MetaSyntactic::List offers several methods, so that the subclasses are easy to write (see full example in SYNOPSIS):

new(): The constructor of a single instance. An instance will not repeat items until the list is exhausted.
init(): init() must be called when the subclass is loaded, so as to read the __DATA__ section and fully initialise it.
name( $count ): Return $count names (default: 1).
Using 0 will return the whole list in list context, and the size of the list in scalar context.
theme(): Return the theme name.

AUTHOR

Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, "<book@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.