NAME

Map::Agnostic - be a map without knowing how

SYNOPSIS

use Map::Agnostic;
class MyMap does Map::Agnostic {
    method INIT-KEY($key,$value) { ... }
    method AT-KEY($key)          { ... }
    method EXISTS-KEY($key)      { ... }
    method keys()                { ... }
}

my %m is MyMap = a => 42, b => 666;

my %m is Map::Agnostic = ...;

DESCRIPTION

This module makes a Map::Agnostic role available for those classes that wish to implement the Associative role as an immutable Map. It provides all of the Map functionality while only needing to implement 4 methods:

Required Methods

method INIT-KEY

method INIT-KEY($key, $value) { ... }

Bind the given value to the given key in the map, and return the value. This will only be called during initialization of the Map. The functioality is the same as the BIND-KEY method, but it will only be called at initialization time, whereas BIND-KEY can be called at any time and will fail.

method AT-KEY

method AT-KEY($key) { ... }

Return the value at the given key in the map.

method EXISTS-KEY

method EXISTS-KEY($key) { ... }

Return Bool indicating whether the key exists in the map.

method keys

method keys() { ... }

Return the keys that currently exist in the map, in any order that is most convenient.

Optional Methods (provided by role)

You may implement these methods out of performance reasons yourself, but you don't have to as an implementation is provided by this role. They follow the same semantics as the methods on the Map object.

In alphabetical order: elems, end, gist, Hash, iterator, kv, list, List, new, pairs, perl, Slip, STORE, Str, values

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/Map-Agnostic . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2018, 2019, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.