Index Index for
Section 3
Index Alphabetical
listing for B
Bottom of page Bottom of
page		 

B::Terse(3)


NAME

  B::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 compatibility 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, however, 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 version 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>.

Index Index for
Section 3
Index Alphabetical
listing for B
Top of page Top of
page