--- /dev/null
+##############################################################################
+# $URL: http://perlcritic.tigris.org/svn/perlcritic/trunk/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/Exception.pm $
+# $Date: 2008-07-03 10:19:10 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) $
+# $Author: clonezone $
+# $Revision: 2489 $
+##############################################################################
+
+package Perl::Critic::Exception;
+
+use 5.006001;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+our $VERSION = '1.088';
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+use Exception::Class (
+ 'Perl::Critic::Exception' => {
+ isa => 'Exception::Class::Base',
+ description => 'A problem discovered by Perl::Critic.',
+ },
+);
+
+use base 'Exporter';
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+sub short_class_name {
+ my ( $self ) = @_;
+
+ return substr ref $self, (length 'Perl::Critic') + 2;
+}
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+1;
+
+__END__
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+=pod
+
+=for stopwords
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+Perl::Critic::Exception - A problem identified by L<Perl::Critic>.
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+A base class for all problems discovered by L<Perl::Critic>. This
+exists to enable differentiating exceptions from L<Perl::Critic> code
+from those originating in other modules.
+
+This is an abstract class. It should never be instantiated.
+
+
+=head1 METHODS
+
+=over
+
+=item C<short_class_name()>
+
+Retrieve the name of the class of this object with C<'Perl::Critic::'>
+stripped off.
+
+
+=back
+
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Elliot Shank. All rights reserved.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
+can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
+
+=cut
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: cperl
+# cperl-indent-level: 4
+# fill-column: 78
+# indent-tabs-mode: nil
+# c-indentation-style: bsd
+# End:
+# ex: set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 tw=78 ft=perl expandtab shiftround :