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NAME
    Acme::POE::Knee - Time sliced pony race using the POE kernel.

VERSION
    version 1.12

SYNOPSIS
        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
        use strict;

        # Use POEny!
        use Acme::POE::Knee;

        # Every Acme::POE::Knee race will require a set of arguments.
        # There are defaults but it's just more fun to set these
        # yourselves. We set a distance the ponies must run and of course
        # we name our race ponies! You'll have to specify the maximum
        # delay a pony can have before reaching the next stage.
        # The lower the delay, the higher the chances are the pony will
        # win the race.

        my $pony = new Acme::POE::Knee (
                  dist   => 20,
            ponies  => {
                'dngor'     => 5,
                'Abigail'   => 5.2,
                'Co-Kane'   => 5.4,
                'MJD'       => 5.6,
                'acme'      => 5.8,
            },
        );

        # start the race
        $pony->race( );

        exit;

DESCRIPTION
    POE::Knee is an acronym of "Pony". We all like ponies. And wouldn't we
    love to race ponies? Well, that's what Acme::POE::Knee is for!

    It's great for those friday afternoons at the office, where you wonder
    who will pay the beer tab. Whoever 'wins' the race, loses!

    You specify a distance the ponies must run, and a maximum delay before
    the pony will reach the next step. So, the bigger the delay, the bigger
    the distance between multiple ponies can be.

    Of course this wouldn't be any fun if we couldn't name the ponies
    ourselves. Here, we simply put all our race ponies in an array reference
    and the Acme::POE::Knee module will take care of the rest.

QUICK LINKS
    Please see the samples directory in POE's distribution for several
    well-commented sample and tutorial programs.

    Please see <http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html> for an excellent,
    and more importantly: gradual, introduction to POE.

USING Acme::POE::Knee
    Using Acme::POE::Knee is really easy. This simple progam would already
    suffice:

        use strict;
        use Acme::POE::Knee;

        my $pony = new Acme::POE::Knee;
        $pony->race();
        exit;

    This will use the defaults of the POE::Knee module, but you can of
    course specify your own arguments, as shown in the synopsis.

The Use of Acme::POE::Knee
    Use, yes... Usefull? Probably not. This was written in response to a
    rather persistant meme on #perl (you know who you are!). Basicly, we all
    wanted ponies. Well folks, here it is.

    Its source might be interesting to look at for newcomers to POE to see
    how this time slicing works.

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