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#  You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License
#  or the Artistic License (the same terms as Perl itself)
#
#  (C) Paul Evans, 2021-2022 -- [e-mail]

package Object::Pad::FieldAttr::Final 0.05;

use v5.14;
use warnings;

use Object::Pad 0.50;

require XSLoader;
XSLoader::load( __PACKAGE__, our $VERSION );

=head1 NAME

C - declare C fields readonly after construction

=head1 SYNOPSIS

   use Object::Pad;
   use Object::Pad::FieldAttr::Final;

   class Rectangle {
      has $width  :param :reader :Final;
      has $height :param :reader :Final;

      has $area :reader :Final;

      ADJUST {
         $area = $width * $height;
      }
   }

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module provides a third-party field attribute for L-based
classes, which declares that the field it is attached to shall be set as
readonly when the constructor returns, disallowing further modification to it.

B The ability for L to take third-party field attributes
is still new and highly experimental, and subject to much API change in
future. As a result, this module should be considered equally experimental.

=head1 FIELD ATTRIBUTES

=head2 :Final

   has $field :Final ...;
   has $field :Final ... = DEFAULT;

Declares that the field variable will be set readonly at the end of the
constructor, after any assignments from C<:param> declarations or C
blocks. At this point, the value cannot otherwise be modified by directly
writing into the field variable.

   has $field :Final;

   ADJUST { $field = 123; }    # this is permitted

   method m { $field = 456; }  # this will fail

Note that this is only a I readonly setting; if the field variable
contains a reference to a data structure, that structure itself remains
mutable.

   has $aref :Final;
   ADJUST { $aref = []; }

   method more { push @$aref, "another"; }   # this is permitted

=cut

sub import
{
   $^H{"Object::Pad::FieldAttr::Final/Final"}++;
}

=head1 AUTHOR

Paul Evans

=cut

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