Re: A funny module that shortens one-liners - is it worth global namespace?

Konstantin S. Uvarin writes:

> I've come up with idea or a module that shortens (mostly test)
> one-liners.
> 
> perl -we 'use My::Very::Long::Module; $x = My::Very::Long::Module->new( foo => 42 ); print $x->foo;'
> 
> perl -Mnew=x=My::Very::Long::Module,foo,42 -we "print $x->foo;"

Have you seen Class::Autouse? You can do:

  perl -MClass::Autouse=:superloader -we '$x = My::Very::Long::Module->new( foo => 42 ); print $x->foo'

You still have to type ->new, but don't need to repeat the module name.

> However, I'm still unsure if the fun is worth putting into global
> namespace, and module name HAS to be short, otherwise it kills the
> idea.

It only has to be short if you expect it to be typed by hand. I have
~/bin/1perl defined as:

  #! /bin/sh
  perl -w -MClass::Autouse=:superloader "$@"

Then for a one-liner where I want classes to load themselves, I use
1perl (which I can type as 1 Tab) rather than perl:

  1perl -e '$x = My::Very::Long::Module->new( foo => 42 ); print $x->foo'

Could you do something similar? That is, give your module a meaningful —
and therefore longer — name, and include in your distribution a script
which uses it (similarly to how the Image::Size module comes with the
imgsize program). Then when you want a quick one-liner that creates
objects like this, use that script in place of perl.

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