NAME

Acme::Insult::Lala - Construct an insulting epithet in the manner of an old IRC bot

SYNOPSIS

use Acme::Insult::Lala;

my $lala = Acme::Insult::Lala.new;

say $lala.generate-insult;

DESCRIPTION

This makes an insulting epithet in the manner of 'lala' an IRC bot that used to be on the london.pm channel back in the mists of time.

I think I originally got the source data from an analysis of epithets in Shakespeare plays or something, but I can't actually remember it was that long ago. Anyhow at some point the lovely Simon Wistow retrieved the basic code and data and incorporated it in the Perl 5 module Acme::Scurvy::Whoreson::BilgeRat::Backend::insultserver. From whence I retrieved the data and made it into a Raku module.

I suppose you could use it for generating test data or something but there's nothing more to it than you see in the Synopsis.

METHODS

method new

method new()

The constructor creates the word lists up front so if you are planning on using this repeatedly it is best to create a single object and re-use it.

method generate-insult

method generate-insult() returns Str

This generates a new random insult based on the internal word lists, as noted above if you are planning to call this repeatedly it is probably better to re-use a single object if you can.