ext::B::B::Terse(Perl Programmers Reference Gext::B::B::Terse(3p)NAMEB::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about
ops
SYNOPSIS
perl -MO=Terse[,OPTIONS] foo.pl
DESCRIPTION
This version of B::Terse is really just a wrapper that calls
B::Concise with the -terse option. It is provided for compa-
tibility with old scripts (and habits) but using B::Concise
directly is now recommended instead.
For compatibility with the old B::Terse, this module also
adds a method named "terse" to B::OP and B::SV objects. The
B::SV method is largely compatible with the old one, though
authors of new software might be advised to choose a more
user-friendly output format. The B::OP "terse" method, how-
ever, doesn't work well. Since B::Terse was first written,
much more information in OPs has migrated to the scratchpad
datastructure, but the "terse" interface doesn't have any
way of getting to the correct pad. As a kludge, the new ver-
sion will always use the pad for the main program, but for
OPs in subroutines this will give the wrong answer or crash.
AUTHOR
The original version of B::Terse was written by Malcolm
Beattie, <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>. This wrapper was written
by Stephen McCamant, <smcc@MIT.EDU>.
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