perl-Class-C3-Adopt-NEXT

Make Next Suck Less

the NEXT manpage was a good solution a few years ago, but isn't any more. It's slow, and the order in which it re-dispatches methods appears random at times. It also encourages bad programming practices, as you end up with code to re-dispatch methods when all you really wanted to do was run some code before or after a method fired. However, if you have a large application, then weaning yourself off 'NEXT' isn't easy. This module is intended as a drop-in replacement for NEXT, supporting the same interface, but using the Class::C3 manpage to do the hard work. You can then write new code without 'NEXT', and migrate individual source files to use 'Class::C3' or method modifiers as appropriate, at whatever pace you're comfortable with.