package assertions; our $VERSION = '0.03'; # use strict; # use warnings; my $hint=0x01000000; my $seen_hint=0x02000000; sub _syntax_error ($$) { my ($expr, $why)=@_; require Carp; Carp::croak("syntax error on assertion filter '$expr' ($why)"); } sub _carp { require warnings; if (warnings::enabled('assertions')) { require Carp; Carp::carp(@_); } } sub _calc_expr { my $expr=shift; my @tokens=split / \s* ( && # and | \|\| # or | \( # parents | \) ) \s* | \s+ # spaces out /x, $expr; # print STDERR "tokens: -", join('-',@tokens), "-\n"; my @now=1; my @op='start'; for my $t (@tokens) { next if (!defined $t or $t eq ''); if ($t eq '(') { unshift @now, 1; unshift @op, 'start'; } else { if ($t eq '||') { defined $op[0] and _syntax_error $expr, 'consecutive operators'; $op[0]='||'; } elsif ($t eq '&&') { defined $op[0] and _syntax_error $expr, 'consecutive operators'; $op[0]='&&'; } else { if ($t eq ')') { @now==1 and _syntax_error $expr, 'unbalanced parens'; defined $op[0] and _syntax_error $expr, "key missing after operator '$op[0]'"; $t=shift @now; shift @op; } elsif ($t eq '_') { unless ($^H & $seen_hint) { _carp "assertion status '_' referenced but not previously defined"; } $t=($^H & $hint) ? 1 : 0; } elsif ($t ne '0' and $t ne '1') { $t = ( grep { ref $_ eq 'Regexp' ? $t=~$_ : $_->check($t) } @{^ASSERTING} ) ? 1 : 0; } defined $op[0] or _syntax_error $expr, 'operator expected'; if ($op[0] eq 'start') { $now[0]=$t; } elsif ($op[0] eq '||') { $now[0]||=$t; } else { $now[0]&&=$t; } undef $op[0]; } } } @now==1 or _syntax_error $expr, 'unbalanced parens'; defined $op[0] and _syntax_error $expr, "expression ends on operator '$op[0]'"; return $now[0]; } sub import { # print STDERR "\@_=", join("|", @_), "\n"; shift; @_=(scalar(caller)) unless @_; foreach my $expr (@_) { unless (_calc_expr $expr) { # print STDERR "assertions deactived"; $^H &= ~$hint; $^H |= $seen_hint; return; } } # print STDERR "assertions actived"; $^H |= $hint|$seen_hint; } sub unimport { @_ > 1 and _carp($_[0]."->unimport arguments are being ignored"); $^H &= ~$hint; } sub enabled { if (@_) { if ($_[0]) { $^H |= $hint; } else { $^H &= ~$hint; } $^H |= $seen_hint; } return $^H & $hint ? 1 : 0; } sub seen { if (@_) { if ($_[0]) { $^H |= $seen_hint; } else { $^H &= ~$seen_hint; } } return $^H & $seen_hint ? 1 : 0; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME assertions - select assertions in blocks of code =head1 SYNOPSIS sub assert (&) : assertion { &{$_[0]}() } use assertions 'foo'; assert { print "asserting 'foo'\n" }; { use assertions qw( foo bar ); assert { print "asserting 'foo' and 'bar'\n" }; } { use assertions qw( bar ); assert { print "asserting only 'bar'\n" }; } { use assertions '_ && bar'; assert { print "asserting 'foo' && 'bar'\n" }; } assert { print "asserting 'foo' again\n" }; =head1 DESCRIPTION *** WARNING: assertion support is only available from perl version *** 5.9.0 and upwards. Check assertions::compat (also available from *** this package) for an alternative backwards compatible module. The C pragma specifies the tags used to enable and disable the execution of assertion subroutines. An assertion subroutine is declared with the C<:assertion> attribute. This subroutine is not normally executed: it's optimized away by perl at compile-time. The C pragma associates to its lexical scope one or several assertion tags. Then, to activate the execution of the assertions subroutines in this scope, these tags must be given to perl via the B<-A> command-line option. For instance, if... use assertions 'foobar'; is used, assertions on the same lexical scope will only be executed when perl is called as... perl -A=foobar script.pl Regular expressions can also be used within the -A switch. For instance... perl -A='foo.*' script.pl will activate assertions tagged as C, C, C, etc. =head2 Selecting assertions Selecting which tags are required to activate assertions inside a lexical scope, is done with the arguments passed on the C sentence. If no arguments are given, the package name is used as the assertion tag: use assertions; is equivalent to use assertions __PACKAGE__; When several tags are given, all of them have to be activated via the C<-A> switch to activate assertion execution on that lexical scope, i.e.: use assertions qw(Foo Bar); Constants C<1> and C<0> can be used to force unconditional activation or deactivation respectively: use assertions '0'; use assertions '1'; Operators C<&&> and C<||> and parenthesis C<(...)> can be used to construct logical expressions: use assertions 'foo && bar'; use assertions 'foo || bar'; use assertions 'foo && (bar || doz)'; (note that the logical operators and the parens have to be included inside the quoted string). Finally, the special tag C<_> refers to the current assertion activation state: use assertions 'foo'; use assertions '_ && bar; is equivalent to use assertions 'foo && bar'; =head2 Handling assertions your own way The C module also provides a set of low level functions to allow for custom assertion handling modules. Those functions are not exported and have to be fully qualified with the package name when called, for instance: require assertions; assertions::enabled(1); (note that C is loaded with the C keyword to avoid calling C). Those functions have to be called at compile time (they are useless at runtime). =over 4 =item enabled($on) activates or deactivates assertion execution. For instance: package assertions::always; require assertions; sub import { assertions::enabled(1) } 1; This function calls C also (see below). =item enabled() returns a true value when assertion execution is active. =item seen($on) A warning is generated when an assertion subroutine is found before any assertion selection code. This function is used to just tell perl that assertion selection code has been seen and that the warning is not required for the currently compiling lexical scope. =item seen() returns true if any assertion selection module (or code) has been called before on the currently compiling lexical scope. =back =head1 COMPATIBILITY Support for assertions is only available in perl from version 5.9. On previous perl versions this module will do nothing, though it will not harm either. L provides an alternative way to use assertions compatible with lower versions of perl. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L. =head1 AUTHOR Salvador FandiEo, Esfandino@yahoo.comE =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2002, 2005 by Salvador FandiEo This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut