NAME

Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy - Hash access to Lingua::EN::Numbers objects.

SYNOPSIS

    use Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy;

    print "$N{1} fish, $N{2} fish, blue fish, red fish";
                         # one fish, two fish, blue fish, red fish.

DESCRIPTION

"Lingua::EN::Numbers" is a module that translates numbers to English words. Unfortunally, it has an object oriented interface, which makes it hard to interpolate them in strings. "Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy" translates numbers to words using a tied hash, which can be interpolated.

By default, "Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy" exports a hash %N to the importing package. This can be changed by giving "use Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy" an argument - this argument is the name of the hash that will be used instead:

    use Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy qw /%nums/;

would use %nums as the tied hash.

See also the "Lingua::EN::Numbers" man page.

"Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy" caches results - numbers will only be translated once.

Any other operation on the exported hash than fetches will throw an exception.

History

This module was created at the end of the 20th century, when "Lingua::EN::Numbers" has a clunky, OO interface. Nowadays, "Lingua::EN::Numbers" has procedural interface as well, lessening the need for "Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy".

Furthermore, "Lingua::EN::Numbers" no longer supports different British and American modes. Therefore, the support for the modes has been dropped in "Lingua::EN::Numbers" as well.

As for 2014, "Lingua::EN::Numbers" does not have an OO interface anymore, just a procedurial one. There's probably no need for "Lingua::EN::Numbers::Easy" anymore, and the reason it was created is now completely gone.

AUTHOR

This package was written by Abigail, <mailto:lingua-en-numbers-easy@abigail.be>

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