# NAME

Extorter - Import Routines By Any Means Necessary

# VERSION

version 0.04

# STATUS

<a href="https://travis-ci.org/alnewkirk/Extorter"><img src="https://travis-ci.org/alnewkirk/Extorter.svg?branch=master"></a>

# SYNOPSIS

    use Extorter qw(

        *utf8
        *strict
        *warnings

        feature^say
        feature^state

        Carp::croak
        Carp::confess

        Data::Dump::dump

        Digest::SHA1::sha1_hex
        Digest::SHA1::sha1_base64

        Encode::encode_utf8
        Encode::decode_utf8

        IO::All::io

        List::AllUtils::distinct
        List::AllUtils::firstval
        List::AllUtils::lastval
        List::AllUtils::pairs
        List::AllUtils::part
        List::AllUtils::uniq

        Memoize::memoize

        Scalar::Util::blessed
        Scalar::Util::refaddr
        Scalar::Util::reftype
        Scalar::Util::weaken

    );

# DESCRIPTION

The Extorter module allows you to create import lists which extract routines
from the package(s) specified. It will import routines found in the package
variables `@EXPORT`, `@EXPORT_OK` and `%EXPORT_TAGS`, or, extract routines
defined in the package which are not explicitly exported. Otherwise, as a last
resort, Extorter will try to load the package, using a parameterized `use`
statement, in the event that the package has a custom or magical importer that
does not conform to the [Exporter](https://metacpan.org/pod/Exporter) interface.

Extorter accepts a list of fully-qualified declarations. The verbosity of the
declarations are meant to promote explicit, clean, and reasonable import lists.
Extorter has the added bonus of extracting functionality from packages which may
not have originally been designed to be imported. Declarations are handled in
the order in which they're declared, which means, as far as the import and/or
extraction order goes, the last routine declared will be the one available to
your program and any `redefine` warnings will be suppressed. This is a feature
not a bug. NOTE: Any declaration prefixed with an asterisk is assumed to be a
fully-qualified namespace of a package and is imported directly.

# FUNCTIONS

## extort::into

The `into` function declared in the `extort` package, used as a kind of global
method invokable by any package, is designed to load and import the specified
`@declarations`, as showcased in the synopsis, into the `$target` package.

    $package->extort::into($target, @declarations);

    e.g.

    $package->extort::into($package, 'Scalar::Util::blessed');
    $package->extort::into($package, 'Scalar::Util::refaddr');
    $package->extort::into($package, 'Scalar::Util::reftype');
    $package->extort::into($package, 'Scalar::Util::weaken');

    $package->extort::into($target, 'List::AllUtils::distinct');
    $package->extort::into($target, 'List::AllUtils::firstval');
    $package->extort::into($target, 'List::AllUtils::lastval');
    $package->extort::into($target, 'List::AllUtils::pairs');
    $package->extort::into($target, 'List::AllUtils::part');
    $package->extort::into($target, 'List::AllUtils::uniq');

# AUTHOR

Al Newkirk <anewkirk@ana.io>

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Al Newkirk.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
