package Sub::Quote; use strictures 1; sub _clean_eval { eval $_[0] } use Sub::Defer; use B 'perlstring'; use Scalar::Util qw(weaken); use base qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(quote_sub unquote_sub quoted_from_sub); our %QUOTED; our %WEAK_REFS; sub capture_unroll { my ($from, $captures, $indent) = @_; join( '', map { /^([\@\%\$])/ or die "capture key should start with \@, \% or \$: $_"; (' ' x $indent).qq{my ${_} = ${1}{${from}->{${\perlstring $_}}};\n}; } keys %$captures ); } sub inlinify { my ($code, $args, $extra, $local) = @_; my $do = 'do { '.($extra||''); if (my ($code_args, $body) = $code =~ / +my \(([^)]+)\) = \@_;(.*)$/s) { if ($code_args eq $args) { $do.$body.' }' } else { $do.'my ('.$code_args.') = ('.$args.'); '.$body.' }'; } } else { $do.($local ? 'local ' : '').'@_ = ('.$args.'); '.$code.' }'; } } sub quote_sub { # HOLY DWIMMERY, BATMAN! # $name => $code => \%captures => \%options # $name => $code => \%captures # $name => $code # $code => \%captures => \%options # $code my $options = (ref($_[-1]) eq 'HASH' and ref($_[-2]) eq 'HASH') ? pop : {}; my $captures = pop if ref($_[-1]) eq 'HASH'; undef($captures) if $captures && !keys %$captures; my $code = pop; my $name = $_[0]; my $outstanding; my $deferred = defer_sub +($options->{no_install} ? undef : $name) => sub { unquote_sub($outstanding); }; $outstanding = "$deferred"; $QUOTED{$outstanding} = [ $name, $code, $captures ]; weaken($WEAK_REFS{$outstanding} = $deferred); return $deferred; } sub quoted_from_sub { my ($sub) = @_; $WEAK_REFS{$sub||''} and $QUOTED{$sub||''}; } sub unquote_sub { my ($sub) = @_; unless ($QUOTED{$sub}[3]) { my ($name, $code, $captures) = @{$QUOTED{$sub}}; my $make_sub = "{\n"; if (keys %$captures) { $make_sub .= capture_unroll("\$_[1]", $captures, 2); } my $o_quoted = perlstring $sub; $make_sub .= ( $name # disable the 'variable $x will not stay shared' warning since # we're not letting it escape from this scope anyway so there's # nothing trying to share it ? " no warnings 'closure';\n sub ${name} {\n" : " \$Sub::Quote::QUOTED{${o_quoted}}[3] = sub {\n" ); $make_sub .= $code; $make_sub .= " }".($name ? '' : ';')."\n"; if ($name) { $make_sub .= " \$Sub::Quote::QUOTED{${o_quoted}}[3] = \\&${name}\n"; } $make_sub .= "}\n1;\n"; $ENV{SUB_QUOTE_DEBUG} && warn $make_sub; { local $@; no strict 'refs'; local *{$name} if $name; unless (_clean_eval $make_sub, $captures) { die "Eval went very, very wrong:\n\n${make_sub}\n\n$@"; } } } $QUOTED{$sub}[3]; } 1; =head1 NAME Sub::Quote - efficient generation of subroutines via string eval =head1 SYNOPSIS package Silly; use Sub::Quote qw(quote_sub unquote_sub quoted_from_sub); quote_sub 'Silly::kitty', q{ print "meow" }; quote_sub 'Silly::doggy', q{ print "woof" }; my $sound = 0; quote_sub 'Silly::dagron', q{ print ++$sound % 2 ? 'burninate' : 'roar' }, { '$sound' => \$sound }; And elsewhere: Silly->kitty; # meow Silly->doggy; # woof Silly->dagron; # burninate Silly->dagron; # roar Silly->dagron; # burninate =head1 DESCRIPTION This package provides performant ways to generate subroutines from strings. =head1 SUBROUTINES =head2 quote_sub my $coderef = quote_sub 'Foo::bar', q{ print $x++ . "\n" }, { '$x' => \0 }; Arguments: ?$name, $code, ?\%captures, ?\%options C<$name> is the subroutine where the coderef will be installed. C<$code> is a string that will be turned into code. C<\%captures> is a hashref of variables that will be made available to the code. See the L's C for an example using captures. =head3 options =over 2 =item * no_install B. Set this option to not install the generated coderef into the passed subroutine name on undefer. =back =head2 unquote_sub my $coderef = unquote_sub $sub; Forcibly replace subroutine with actual code. Note that for performance reasons all quoted subs declared so far will be globally unquoted/parsed in a single eval. This means that if you have a syntax error in one of your quoted subs you may find out when some other sub is unquoted. If $sub is not a quoted sub, this is a no-op. =head2 quoted_from_sub my $data = quoted_from_sub $sub; my ($name, $code, $captures, $compiled_sub) = @$data; Returns original arguments to quote_sub, plus the compiled version if this sub has already been unquoted. Note that $sub can be either the original quoted version or the compiled version for convenience. =head2 inlinify my $prelude = capture_unroll { '$x' => 1, '$y' => 2, }; my $inlined_code = inlinify q{ my ($x, $y) = @_; print $x + $y . "\n"; }, '$x, $y', $prelude; Takes a string of code, a string of arguments, a string of code which acts as a "prelude", and a B representing whether or not to localize the arguments. =head2 capture_unroll my $prelude = capture_unroll { '$x' => 1, '$y' => 2, }; Generates a snippet of code which is suitable to be used as a prelude for L. The keys are the names of the variables and the values are (duh) the values. Note that references work as values. =head1 CAVEATS Much of this is just string-based code-generation, and as a result, a few caveats apply. =head2 return Calling C from a quote_sub'ed sub will not likely do what you intend. Instead of returning from the code you defined in C, it will return from the overall function it is composited into. So when you pass in: quote_sub q{ return 1 if $condition; $morecode } It might turn up in the intended context as follows: sub foo { do { return 1 if $condition; $morecode }; } Which will obviously return from foo, when all you meant to do was return from the code context in quote_sub and proceed with running important code b.