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B::Terse(3pm)                         Perl Programmers Reference Guide                         B::Terse(3pm)



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, <[email protected]>. This
       wrapper was written by Stephen McCamant, <[email protected]>.



perl v5.10.0                                     2007-12-18                                    B::Terse(3pm)

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