man Digest::base () - Digest base class
NAME
Digest::base - Digest base class
SYNOPSIS
package Digest::Foo; use base 'Digest::base';
DESCRIPTION
The CWDigest::base class provide implementations of the methods CWaddfile and CWadd_bits in terms of CWadd, and of the methods CWhexdigest and CWb64digest in terms of CWdigest.
Digest implementations might want to inherit from this class to get this implementations of the alternative add and digest methods. A minimal subclass needs to implement the following methods by itself:
new
clone
add
digest
The arguments and expected behaviour of these methods are described in Digest.
SEE ALSO
Digest