---
name: "Forest"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libforest-perl"
version: "0.10-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Forest"
---

# Forest(3pm)

A collection of n-ary tree related modules

## NAME

Forest - A collection of n-ary tree related modules

## DESCRIPTION

Forest is intended to be a replacement for the Tree::Simple family of modules, and fixes many of the issues that have always bothered me about them. It is by no means a complete replacement yet, but should eventually grow to become that.

For more information please refer to the individual module documentation, starting with Forest::Tree.

## TODO

- More documentation

  This is 0.10 so it is (still) lacking quite a bit of docs (I am being really lazy sorry). Although I invite people to read the source, it is quite simple really.

- More tests

  The coverage is in the low 90s, but there is still a lot of behavioral stuff that could use some testing too.

## SEE ALSO

- Tree::Simple

  I wrote this module a few years ago and I had served me well, but recently I find myself getting frustrated with some of the uglier bits of this module. So Forest is a re-write of this module.

- Tree

  This is an ambitious project to replace all the Tree related modules with a single core implementation. There is some good code in here, but the project seems to be very much on the back-burner at this time.

- OCaml port of Forest

  Ask me about the OCaml port of this module, it is also sitting on my hard drive waiting for release. It actually helped quite a bit in terms of helping me settle on the APIs for this module. Static typing can be very helpful sometimes.

## BUGS

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT.

## AUTHOR

Stevan Little \<stevan.little@iinteractive.com\>

With contributions from:

Yuval (nothingmuch) Kogman

Guillermo (groditi) Roditi

Florian (rafl) Ragwitz

Jesse (doy) Luehrs

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2014 Infinity Interactive, Inc.

\<http://www.iinteractive.com\>

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