NAME
    Object::Deadly - An object that dies whenever examined

SYNOPSIS
      use Object::Deadly;
      use Test::Exception 'lives_ok';
      
  # Test that a few functions inspect their parameters safely
      lives_ok { some_function( Object::Deadly->new ) } 'some_function';
      lives_ok { Dumper( Object::Deadly->new ) } 'Data::Dumper';

DESCRIPTION
    This object is meant to be used in testing. All possible overloading and
    method calls die. You can pass this object into methods which are not
    supposed to accidentally trigger any potentially overloading.

    This problem arose when testing Data::Dump::Streamer and Carp. The
    former was triggering overloaded object methods instead of just dumping
    their data. Data::Dump::Streamer is now safe for overloaded objects but
    it wouldn't have been unless it hadn't have been tested with a deadly,
    overloaded object.

DEALING WITH DEATH
    TODO

METHODS
    "Object::Deadly->new()"
    "Object::Deadly->new( MESSAGE )"
        The class method "Object::Deadly->new" returns an "Object::Deadly"
        object. Dies with a stack trace and a message when evaluated in any
        context. The default message contains a stack trace from where the
        object is created.

    "Object::Deadly->kill_function( FUNCTION NAME )"
    "Object::Deadly->kill_function( FUNCTION NAME, DEATH CODE REF )"
        The class method kill_function accepts a function name like "isa",
        "can", or similar and creates a function in the
        "Object::Deadly::_unsafe" class of the same name.

        An optional second argument is a code reference to die with. This
        defaults to "Object::Deadly->can( '_death' )".

    "Object::Deadly->kill_UNIVERSAL"
        This class method kills all currently known UNIVERSAL functions so
        they can't be called on a "Object::Deadly" object. This includes a
        list of methods known to the author and then an inspection of
        UNIVERSAL::.

    "Object::Deadly->get_death"
        Returns the function "Object::Deadly::_death".

PRIVATE FUNCTIONS
    The following functions are all private and not meant for public
    consumption.

    "_death( $obj )"
        This function temporarilly reblesses the object into
        "Object::Deadly::_safe", extracts the message from inside of it, and
        "confess"'s with it. If possible this will be Carp::Clan::confess.

AUTHOR
    Joshua ben Jore, "<jjore at cpan.org>"

BUGS
    Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-object-deadly at
    rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
    <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Object-Deadly>. I will
    be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on
    your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT
    You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

      perldoc Object::Deadly

    You can also look for information at:

    *   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

        <http://annocpan.org/dist/Object-Deadly>

    *   CPAN Ratings

        <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Object-Deadly>

    *   RT: CPAN's request tracker

        <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Object-Deadly>

    *   Search CPAN

        <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Object-Deadly>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    Yves Orton and Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
    Copyright 2006 Joshua ben Jore, all rights reserved.

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