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NAME
    Sub::Clean - Clean subroutines with an attribute

VERSION
    version 0.01

SYNOPSIS
      use Sub::Clean;
  
      sub whatever :Cleaned {
        return "This cannot be called as a method";
      }

DESCRIPTION
    This module 'cleans' subroutines you mark with the "Cleaned" attribute,
    preventing them being called from places they haven't been already been
    bound by the perl compiler.

    The main advantage in this is that you can declare subroutines and use
    them in your code as functions, but prevent them from being called as a
    method. This is particularly useful if your superclass (maybe
    unbeknownst to you) has a method of the same name as the function which
    would normally be 'shadowed' by your method.

    For example, this:

      package Banner;
  
      sub text { "example text\n" }
      sub bar  { "-"x20 . "\n" }
  
      sub message {
        my $class = shift;
        return $class->bar . $class->text . $class->bar
      }
  
      package PubBanner;
      use base qw(Banner);
      use Sub::Clean;
  
      sub text { bar() . "\n" }
  
      sub bar :Cleaned { 
        return (("Cheers","Quark's","Moe's")[rand(3)])
      }
  
      package main;
      print PubBanner->message();

    Print out the right thing:

      --------------------
      Moe's
      --------------------

    Rather than just printing three horizontal lines.

  Lexical Scope
    Please note that this module enables the "Cleaned" attribute only in
    lexical scope of the "use Sub::Clean" statement. This prevents namespace
    pollution.

AUTHOR
    Written by Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com>

    Copryright Mark Fowler 2010. All Rights Reserved.

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

BUGS
    No bugs have been reported.

    Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
    http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sub-Clean

AVAILABILITY
    The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive
    Perl Archive Network (CPAN). isit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a
    CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sub-Clean/

    The development version lives at
    http://github.com/2shortplanks/Sub-Clean/. Instead of sending patches,
    please fork this project using the standard git and github
    infrastructure.

SEE ALSO
    namespace::clean allows you to clean your namespace by dividing your
    code up into sections that should be cleaned or not cleaned.

    namespace::autoclean automatically can clean imported subroutines from
    other namespaces.

    Lexical::Sub allows you to declare subroutines that only exist in
    lexical scope.

    Attribute::Lexical was used to create lexical attributes.

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