Path::IsDev::Role::Heuristic(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation NAME Path::IsDev::Role::Heuristic - Base role for Heuristic things. VERSION version 1.001003 ROLE REQUIRES "matches" Implementing classes must provide this method. return : 1 / undef 1 -> this path is a development directory as far as this heuristic is concerned undef -> this path is not a development directory as far as this heuristic is concerned args : ( $class , $result_object ) $class -> method will be invoked on packages, not objects $result_object -> will be a Path::IsDev::Result Additionally, consuming classes should set "$result_object->result( 1 )" prior to returning true. Composing roles should also invoke "$result_object->add_reason( $self, $result_value, $descriptive_reason_for_result, \%contextinfo )". See "Path::IsDev::Result" for details METHODS "name" Returns the name to use in debugging. By default, this is derived from the classes name with the "PIDH" prefix removed: Path::IsDev::Heuristic::Tool::Dzil->name() -> "+ ::Tool::Dzil" "heuristic_type" Returns a description of the general heuristic type positive heuristic AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.38.0 2023-07-26 Path::IsDev::Role::Heuristic(3)