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use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;
our $VERSION = '0.53';
use Exporter qw( import );
use Module::Implementation;
my @subs = qw(
any all none notall
true false
firstidx lastidx
insert_after insert_after_string
apply indexes
after after_incl before before_incl
firstval lastval
each_array each_arrayref
pairwise natatime
mesh uniq
minmax part
bsearch
sort_by nsort_by
one any_u all_u none_u notall_u one_u
firstres onlyidx onlyval onlyres lastres
singleton bsearchidx
);
my %aliases = (
bsearch_index => 'bsearchidx',
distinct => 'uniq',
first_index => 'firstidx',
first_result => 'firstres',
first_value => 'firstval',
last_index => 'lastidx',
last_result => 'lastres',
last_value => 'lastval',
only_index => 'onlyidx',
only_result => 'onlyres',
only_value => 'onlyval',
zip => 'mesh',
);
our @EXPORT_OK = ( @subs, keys %aliases );
our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( all => \@EXPORT_OK );
{
my $loader = Module::Implementation::build_loader_sub(
implementations => [ 'XS', 'PP' ],
symbols => \@subs,
);
$loader->();
}
for my $alias ( keys %aliases ) {
## no critic (TestingAndDebugging::ProhibitNoStrict)
no strict 'refs';
*{$alias} = __PACKAGE__->can( $aliases{$alias} );
}
## no critic (Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateSubroutines)
sub _XScompiled {
return Module::Implementation::implementation_for(__PACKAGE__) eq 'XS';
}
1;
# ABSTRACT: Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
List::SomeUtils - Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
=head1 VERSION
version 0.53
=head1 SYNOPSIS
# import specific functions
use List::SomeUtils qw( any uniq );
if ( any {/foo/} uniq @has_duplicates ) {
# do stuff
}
# import everything
use List::SomeUtils ':all';
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<List::SomeUtils> provides some trivial but commonly needed functionality on
lists which is not going to go into L<List::Util>.
All of the below functions are implementable in only a couple of lines of Perl
code. Using the functions from this module however should give slightly better
performance as everything is implemented in C. The pure-Perl implementation of
these functions only serves as a fallback in case the C portions of this module
couldn't be compiled on this machine.
=head1 WHY DOES THIS MODULE EXIST?
You might wonder why this module exists when we already have
L<List::MoreUtils>. In fact, this module is the same code as is found in LMU
with no significant changes. However, the LMU distribution depends on several
modules for configuration (to run the Makefile.PL) that some folks in the Perl
community don't think are appropriate for a module high upstream in the CPAN
river.
I (Dave Rolsky) don't have a strong opinion on this, but I I<do> like the
functions provided by LMU, and I'm tired of getting patches and PRs to remove
it from my code.
This distribution exists to let me use the functionality I like without having
to get into tiring arguments about issues I don't really care about.
=head1 EXPORTS
=head2 Default behavior
Nothing by default. To import all of this module's symbols use the C<:all> tag.
Otherwise functions can be imported by name as usual:
use List::SomeUtils ':all';
use List::SomeUtils qw{ any firstidx };
Because historical changes to the API might make upgrading List::SomeUtils
difficult for some projects, the legacy API is available via special import
tags.
=head1 FUNCTIONS
=head2 Junctions
=head3 I<Treatment of an empty list>
There are two schools of thought for how to evaluate a junction on an
empty list:
=over
=item *
Reduction to an identity (boolean)
=item *
Result is undefined (three-valued)
=back
In the first case, the result of the junction applied to the empty list is
determined by a mathematical reduction to an identity depending on whether
the underlying comparison is "or" or "and". Conceptually:
"any are true" "all are true"
-------------- --------------
2 elements: A || B || 0 A && B && 1
1 element: A || 0 A && 1
0 elements: 0 1
In the second case, three-value logic is desired, in which a junction
applied to an empty list returns C<undef> rather than true or false
Junctions with a C<_u> suffix implement three-valued logic. Those
without are boolean.
=head3 all BLOCK LIST
=head3 all_u BLOCK LIST
Returns a true value if all items in LIST meet the criterion given through
BLOCK. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
print "All values are non-negative"
if all { $_ >= 0 } ($x, $y, $z);
For an empty LIST, C<all> returns true (i.e. no values failed the condition)
and C<all_u> returns C<undef>.
Thus, C<< all_u(@list) >> is equivalent to C<< @list ? all(@list) : undef >>.
B<Note>: because Perl treats C<undef> as false, you must check the return value
of C<all_u> with C<defined> or you will get the opposite result of what you
expect.
=head3 any BLOCK LIST
=head3 any_u BLOCK LIST
Returns a true value if any item in LIST meets the criterion given through
BLOCK. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
print "At least one non-negative value"
if any { $_ >= 0 } ($x, $y, $z);
For an empty LIST, C<any> returns false and C<any_u> returns C<undef>.
Thus, C<< any_u(@list) >> is equivalent to C<< @list ? any(@list) : undef >>.
=head3 none BLOCK LIST
=head3 none_u BLOCK LIST
Logically the negation of C<any>. Returns a true value if no item in LIST meets
the criterion given through BLOCK. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
print "No non-negative values"
if none { $_ >= 0 } ($x, $y, $z);
For an empty LIST, C<none> returns true (i.e. no values failed the condition)
and C<none_u> returns C<undef>.
Thus, C<< none_u(@list) >> is equivalent to C<< @list ? none(@list) : undef >>.
B<Note>: because Perl treats C<undef> as false, you must check the return value
of C<none_u> with C<defined> or you will get the opposite result of what you
expect.
=head3 notall BLOCK LIST
=head3 notall_u BLOCK LIST
Logically the negation of C<all>. Returns a true value if not all items in LIST
meet the criterion given through BLOCK. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in
turn:
print "Not all values are non-negative"
if notall { $_ >= 0 } ($x, $y, $z);
For an empty LIST, C<notall> returns false and C<notall_u> returns C<undef>.
Thus, C<< notall_u(@list) >> is equivalent to C<< @list ? notall(@list) : undef >>.
=head3 one BLOCK LIST
=head3 one_u BLOCK LIST
Returns a true value if precisely one item in LIST meets the criterion
given through BLOCK. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
print "Precisely one value defined"
if one { defined($_) } @list;
Returns false otherwise.
For an empty LIST, C<one> returns false and C<one_u> returns C<undef>.
The expression C<one BLOCK LIST> is almost equivalent to
C<1 == true BLOCK LIST>, except for short-cutting.
Evaluation of BLOCK will immediately stop at the second true value.
=head2 Transformation
=head3 apply BLOCK LIST
Applies BLOCK to each item in LIST and returns a list of the values after BLOCK
has been applied. In scalar context, the last element is returned. This
function is similar to C<map> but will not modify the elements of the input
list:
my @list = (1 .. 4);
my @mult = apply { $_ *= 2 } @list;
print "\@list = @list\n";
print "\@mult = @mult\n";
__END__
@list = 1 2 3 4
@mult = 2 4 6 8
Think of it as syntactic sugar for
for (my @mult = @list) { $_ *= 2 }
=head3 insert_after BLOCK VALUE LIST
Inserts VALUE after the first item in LIST for which the criterion in BLOCK is
true. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn.
my @list = qw/This is a list/;
insert_after { $_ eq "a" } "longer" => @list;
print "@list";
__END__
This is a longer list
=head3 insert_after_string STRING VALUE LIST
Inserts VALUE after the first item in LIST which is equal to STRING.
my @list = qw/This is a list/;
insert_after_string "a", "longer" => @list;
print "@list";
__END__
This is a longer list
=head3 pairwise BLOCK ARRAY1 ARRAY2
Evaluates BLOCK for each pair of elements in ARRAY1 and ARRAY2 and returns a
new list consisting of BLOCK's return values. The two elements are set to C<$a>
and C<$b>. Note that those two are aliases to the original value so changing
them will modify the input arrays.
@a = (1 .. 5);
@b = (11 .. 15);
@x = pairwise { $a + $b } @a, @b; # returns 12, 14, 16, 18, 20
# mesh with pairwise
@a = qw/a b c/;
@b = qw/1 2 3/;
@x = pairwise { ($a, $b) } @a, @b; # returns a, 1, b, 2, c, 3
=head3 mesh ARRAY1 ARRAY2 [ ARRAY3 ... ]
=head3 zip ARRAY1 ARRAY2 [ ARRAY3 ... ]
Returns a list consisting of the first elements of each array, then
the second, then the third, etc, until all arrays are exhausted.
Examples:
@x = qw/a b c d/;
@y = qw/1 2 3 4/;
@z = mesh @x, @y; # returns a, 1, b, 2, c, 3, d, 4
@a = ('x');
@b = ('1', '2');
@c = qw/zip zap zot/;
@d = mesh @a, @b, @c; # x, 1, zip, undef, 2, zap, undef, undef, zot
C<zip> is an alias for C<mesh>.
=head3 uniq LIST
=head3 distinct LIST
Returns a new list by stripping duplicate values in LIST by comparing
the values as hash keys, except that undef is considered separate from ''.
The order of elements in the returned list is the same as in LIST. In
scalar context, returns the number of unique elements in LIST.
my @x = uniq 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 3, 4; # returns 1 2 3 5 4
my $x = uniq 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 3, 4; # returns 5
# returns "Mike", "Michael", "Richard", "Rick"
my @n = distinct "Mike", "Michael", "Richard", "Rick", "Michael", "Rick"
# returns '', 'S1', A5' and complains about "Use of uninitialized value"
my @s = distinct '', undef, 'S1', 'A5'
# returns undef, 'S1', A5' and complains about "Use of uninitialized value"
my @w = uniq undef, '', 'S1', 'A5'
C<distinct> is an alias for C<uniq>.
B<RT#49800> can be used to give feedback about this behavior.
=head3 singleton
Returns a new list by stripping values in LIST occurring more than once by
comparing the values as hash keys, except that undef is considered separate
from ''. The order of elements in the returned list is the same as in LIST.
In scalar context, returns the number of elements occurring only once in LIST.
my @x = singleton 1,1,2,2,3,4,5 # returns 3 4 5
=head2 Partitioning
=head3 after BLOCK LIST
Returns a list of the values of LIST after (and not including) the point
where BLOCK returns a true value. Sets C<$_> for each element in LIST in turn.
@x = after { $_ % 5 == 0 } (1..9); # returns 6, 7, 8, 9
=head3 after_incl BLOCK LIST
Same as C<after> but also includes the element for which BLOCK is true.
=head3 before BLOCK LIST
Returns a list of values of LIST up to (and not including) the point where BLOCK
returns a true value. Sets C<$_> for each element in LIST in turn.
=head3 before_incl BLOCK LIST
Same as C<before> but also includes the element for which BLOCK is true.
=head3 part BLOCK LIST
Partitions LIST based on the return value of BLOCK which denotes into which
partition the current value is put.
Returns a list of the partitions thusly created. Each partition created is a
reference to an array.
my $i = 0;
my @part = part { $i++ % 2 } 1 .. 8; # returns [1, 3, 5, 7], [2, 4, 6, 8]
You can have a sparse list of partitions as well where non-set partitions will
be undef:
my @part = part { 2 } 1 .. 10; # returns undef, undef, [ 1 .. 10 ]
Be careful with negative values, though:
my @part = part { -1 } 1 .. 10;
__END__
Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 ...
Negative values are only ok when they refer to a partition previously created:
my @idx = ( 0, 1, -1 );
my $i = 0;
my @part = part { $idx[$++ % 3] } 1 .. 8; # [1, 4, 7], [2, 3, 5, 6, 8]
=head2 Iteration
=head3 each_array ARRAY1 ARRAY2 ...
Creates an array iterator to return the elements of the list of arrays ARRAY1,
ARRAY2 throughout ARRAYn in turn. That is, the first time it is called, it
returns the first element of each array. The next time, it returns the second
elements. And so on, until all elements are exhausted.
This is useful for looping over more than one array at once:
my $ea = each_array(@a, @b, @c);
while ( my ($a, $b, $c) = $ea->() ) { .... }
The iterator returns the empty list when it reached the end of all arrays.
If the iterator is passed an argument of 'C<index>', then it returns
the index of the last fetched set of values, as a scalar.
=head3 each_arrayref LIST
Like each_array, but the arguments are references to arrays, not the
plain arrays.
=head3 natatime EXPR, LIST
Creates an array iterator, for looping over an array in chunks of
C<$n> items at a time. (n at a time, get it?). An example is
probably a better explanation than I could give in words.
Example:
my @x = ('a' .. 'g');
my $it = natatime 3, @x;
while (my @vals = $it->())
{
print "@vals\n";
}
This prints
a b c
d e f
g
=head2 Searching
=head3 bsearch BLOCK LIST
Performs a binary search on LIST which must be a sorted list of values. BLOCK
must return a negative value if the current element (stored in C<$_>) is smaller,
a positive value if it is bigger and zero if it matches.
Returns a boolean value in scalar context. In list context, it returns the element
if it was found, otherwise the empty list.
=head3 bsearchidx BLOCK LIST
=head3 bsearch_index BLOCK LIST
Performs a binary search on LIST which must be a sorted list of values. BLOCK
must return a negative value if the current element (stored in C<$_>) is smaller,
a positive value if it is bigger and zero if it matches.
Returns the index of found element, otherwise C<-1>.
C<bsearch_index> is an alias for C<bsearchidx>.
=head3 firstval BLOCK LIST
=head3 first_value BLOCK LIST
Returns the first element in LIST for which BLOCK evaluates to true. Each
element of LIST is set to C<$_> in turn. Returns C<undef> if no such element
has been found.
C<first_value> is an alias for C<firstval>.
=head3 onlyval BLOCK LIST
=head3 only_value BLOCK LIST
Returns the only element in LIST for which BLOCK evaluates to true. Sets
C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn. Returns C<undef> if no such element
has been found.
C<only_value> is an alias for C<onlyval>.
=head3 lastval BLOCK LIST
=head3 last_value BLOCK LIST
Returns the last value in LIST for which BLOCK evaluates to true. Each element
of LIST is set to C<$_> in turn. Returns C<undef> if no such element has been
found.
C<last_value> is an alias for C<lastval>.
=head3 firstres BLOCK LIST
=head3 first_result BLOCK LIST
Returns the result of BLOCK for the first element in LIST for which BLOCK
evaluates to true. Each element of LIST is set to C<$_> in turn. Returns
C<undef> if no such element has been found.
C<first_result> is an alias for C<firstres>.
=head3 onlyres BLOCK LIST
=head3 only_result BLOCK LIST
Returns the result of BLOCK for the first element in LIST for which BLOCK
evaluates to true. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn. Returns
C<undef> if no such element has been found.
C<only_result> is an alias for C<onlyres>.
=head3 lastres BLOCK LIST
=head3 last_result BLOCK LIST
Returns the result of BLOCK for the last element in LIST for which BLOCK
evaluates to true. Each element of LIST is set to C<$_> in turn. Returns
C<undef> if no such element has been found.
C<last_result> is an alias for C<lastres>.
=head3 indexes BLOCK LIST
Evaluates BLOCK for each element in LIST (assigned to C<$_>) and returns a list
of the indices of those elements for which BLOCK returned a true value. This is
just like C<grep> only that it returns indices instead of values:
@x = indexes { $_ % 2 == 0 } (1..10); # returns 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
=head3 firstidx BLOCK LIST
=head3 first_index BLOCK LIST
Returns the index of the first element in LIST for which the criterion in BLOCK
is true. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
my @list = (1, 4, 3, 2, 4, 6);
printf "item with index %i in list is 4", firstidx { $_ == 4 } @list;
__END__
item with index 1 in list is 4
Returns C<-1> if no such item could be found.
C<first_index> is an alias for C<firstidx>.
=head3 onlyidx BLOCK LIST
=head3 only_index BLOCK LIST
Returns the index of the only element in LIST for which the criterion
in BLOCK is true. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
my @list = (1, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4);
printf "uniqe index of item 2 in list is %i", onlyidx { $_ == 2 } @list;
__END__
unique index of item 2 in list is 4
Returns C<-1> if either no such item or more than one of these
has been found.
C<only_index> is an alias for C<onlyidx>.
=head3 lastidx BLOCK LIST
=head3 last_index BLOCK LIST
Returns the index of the last element in LIST for which the criterion in BLOCK
is true. Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
my @list = (1, 4, 3, 2, 4, 6);
printf "item with index %i in list is 4", lastidx { $_ == 4 } @list;
__END__
item with index 4 in list is 4
Returns C<-1> if no such item could be found.
C<last_index> is an alias for C<lastidx>.
=head2 Sorting
=head3 sort_by BLOCK LIST
Returns the list of values sorted according to the string values returned by the
KEYFUNC block or function. A typical use of this may be to sort objects according
to the string value of some accessor, such as
sort_by { $_->name } @people
The key function is called in scalar context, being passed each value in turn as
both $_ and the only argument in the parameters, @_. The values are then sorted
according to string comparisons on the values returned.
This is equivalent to
sort { $a->name cmp $b->name } @people
except that it guarantees the name accessor will be executed only once per value.
One interesting use-case is to sort strings which may have numbers embedded in them
"naturally", rather than lexically.
sort_by { s/(\d+)/sprintf "%09d", $1/eg; $_ } @strings
This sorts strings by generating sort keys which zero-pad the embedded numbers to
some level (9 digits in this case), helping to ensure the lexical sort puts them
in the correct order.
=head3 nsort_by BLOCK LIST
Similar to sort_by but compares its key values numerically.
=head2 Counting and calculation
=head3 true BLOCK LIST
Counts the number of elements in LIST for which the criterion in BLOCK is true.
Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
printf "%i item(s) are defined", true { defined($_) } @list;
=head3 false BLOCK LIST
Counts the number of elements in LIST for which the criterion in BLOCK is false.
Sets C<$_> for each item in LIST in turn:
printf "%i item(s) are not defined", false { defined($_) } @list;
=head3 minmax LIST
Calculates the minimum and maximum of LIST and returns a two element list with
the first element being the minimum and the second the maximum. Returns the
empty list if LIST was empty.
The C<minmax> algorithm differs from a naive iteration over the list where each
element is compared to two values being the so far calculated min and max value
in that it only requires 3n/2 - 2 comparisons. Thus it is the most efficient
possible algorithm.
However, the Perl implementation of it has some overhead simply due to the fact
that there are more lines of Perl code involved. Therefore, LIST needs to be
fairly big in order for C<minmax> to win over a naive implementation. This
limitation does not apply to the XS version.
=head1 MAINTENANCE
The maintenance goal is to preserve the documented semantics of the API;
bug fixes that bring actual behavior in line with semantics are allowed.
New API functions may be added over time. If a backwards incompatible
change is unavoidable, we will attempt to provide support for the legacy
API using the same export tag mechanism currently in place.
This module attempts to use few non-core dependencies. Non-core
configuration and testing modules will be bundled when reasonable;
run-time dependencies will be added only if they deliver substantial
benefit.
=head1 KNOWN ISSUES
There is a problem with a bug in 5.6.x perls. It is a syntax error to write
things like:
my @x = apply { s/foo/bar/ } qw{ foo bar baz };
It has to be written as either
my @x = apply { s/foo/bar/ } 'foo', 'bar', 'baz';
or
my @x = apply { s/foo/bar/ } my @dummy = qw/foo bar baz/;
Perl 5.5.x and Perl 5.8.x don't suffer from this limitation.
If you have a functionality that you could imagine being in this module, please
drop me a line. This module's policy will be less strict than L<List::Util>'s
when it comes to additions as it isn't a core module.
When you report bugs, it would be nice if you could additionally give me the
output of your program with the environment variable C<LIST_MOREUTILS_PP> set
to a true value. That way I know where to look for the problem (in XS,
pure-Perl or possibly both).
=head1 THANKS
=head2 Tassilo von Parseval
Credits go to a number of people: Steve Purkis for giving me namespace advice
and James Keenan and Terrence Branno for their effort of keeping the CPAN
tidier by making L<List::Util> obsolete.
Brian McCauley suggested the inclusion of apply() and provided the pure-Perl
implementation for it.
Eric J. Roode asked me to add all functions from his module C<List::SomeUtil>
into this one. With minor modifications, the pure-Perl implementations of those
are by him.
The bunch of people who almost immediately pointed out the many problems with
the glitchy 0.07 release (Slaven Rezic, Ron Savage, CPAN testers).
A particularly nasty memory leak was spotted by Thomas A. Lowery.
Lars Thegler made me aware of problems with older Perl versions.
Anno Siegel de-orphaned each_arrayref().
David Filmer made me aware of a problem in each_arrayref that could ultimately
lead to a segfault.
Ricardo Signes suggested the inclusion of part() and provided the
Perl-implementation.
Robin Huston kindly fixed a bug in perl's MULTICALL API to make the
XS-implementation of part() work.
=head2 Jens Rehsack
Credits goes to all people contributing feedback during the v0.400
development releases.
Special thanks goes to David Golden who spent a lot of effort to develop
a design to support current state of CPAN as well as ancient software
somewhere in the dark. He also contributed a lot of patches to refactor
the API frontend to welcome any user of List::SomeUtils - from ancient
past to recently last used.
Toby Inkster provided a lot of useful feedback for sane importer code
and was a nice sounding board for API discussions.
Peter Rabbitson provided a sane git repository setup containing entire
package history.
=head1 TODO
A pile of requests from other people is still pending further processing in
my mailbox. This includes:
=over 4
=item * List::Util export pass-through
Allow B<List::SomeUtils> to pass-through the regular L<List::Util>
functions to end users only need to C<use> the one module.
=item * uniq_by(&@)
Use code-reference to extract a key based on which the uniqueness is
determined. Suggested by Aaron Crane.
=item * delete_index
=item * random_item
=item * random_item_delete_index
=item * list_diff_hash
=item * list_diff_inboth
=item * list_diff_infirst
=item * list_diff_insecond
These were all suggested by Dan Muey.
=item * listify
Always return a flat list when either a simple scalar value was passed or an
array-reference. Suggested by Mark Summersault.
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<List::Util>, L<List::AllUtils>, L<List::UtilsBy>
=head1 HISTORICAL COPYRIGHT
Some parts copyright 2011 Aaron Crane.
Copyright 2004 - 2010 by Tassilo von Parseval
Copyright 2013 - 2015 by Jens Rehsack
=head1 SUPPORT
Bugs may be submitted through L<the RT bug tracker|http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=List-SomeUtils>
(or L<bug-list-someutils@rt.cpan.org|mailto:bug-list-someutils@rt.cpan.org>).
I am also usually active on IRC as 'drolsky' on C<irc://irc.perl.org>.
=head1 DONATIONS
If you'd like to thank me for the work I've done on this module, please
consider making a "donation" to me via PayPal. I spend a lot of free time
creating free software, and would appreciate any support you'd care to offer.
Please note that B<I am not suggesting that you must do this> in order for me
to continue working on this particular software. I will continue to do so,
inasmuch as I have in the past, for as long as it interests me.
Similarly, a donation made in this way will probably not make me work on this
software much more, unless I get so many donations that I can consider working
on free software full time (let's all have a chuckle at that together).
To donate, log into PayPal and send money to autarch@urth.org, or use the
button at L<http://www.urth.org/~autarch/fs-donation.html>.
=head1 AUTHORS
=over 4
=item *
Tassilo von Parseval <tassilo.von.parseval@rwth-aachen.de>
=item *
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
=item *
Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org>
=item *
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
=back
=head1 CONTRIBUTORS
=for stopwords Aaron Crane BackPan Brad Forschinger David Golden jddurand Jens Rehsack J.R. Mash Karen Etheridge Ricardo Signes Toby Inkster Tokuhiro Matsuno Tom Wyant
=over 4
=item *
Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org>
=item *
BackPan <BackPan>
=item *
Brad Forschinger <bnjf@bnjf.id.au>
=item *
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
=item *
jddurand <jeandamiendurand@free.fr>
=item *
Jens Rehsack <sno@netbsd.org>
=item *
J.R. Mash <jrmash@cpan.org>
=item *
Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
=item *
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
=item *
Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>
=item *
Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom@cpan.org>
=item *
Tom Wyant <wyant@cpan.org>
=back
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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