NAME

UNIVERSAL::moniker

SYNOPSIS

  use UNIVERSAL::moniker;

DESCRIPTION

Class names in Perl often don't sound great when spoken, or look good when written in prose. For this reason, we tend to say things like "customer" or "basket" when we are referring to "My::Site::User::Customer" or "My::Site::Shop::Basket". We thought it would be nice if our classes knew what we would prefer to call them.

This module will add a "moniker" (and "plural_moniker") method to "UNIVERSAL", and so to every class or module.

moniker

  $ob->moniker;

Returns the moniker for $ob. So, if $ob->isa("Big::Scary::Animal"), "moniker" will return "animal".

plural_moniker

  $ob->plural_moniker;

Returns the plural moniker for $ob. So, if $ob->isa("Cephalopod::Octopus"), "plural_moniker" will return "octopuses".

(You need to install Lingua::EN::Inflect for this to work.)

AUTHORS

Marty Pauley <marty+perl@kasei.com>, Tony Bowden <tony@kasei.com>, Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl>

(Yes, 3 authors for such a small module!)

COPYRIGHT

  Copyright (C) 2004 Kasei

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it under the same terms as
  Perl.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
  ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
  FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.