B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
perl -MO=Terse[,OPTIONS] foo.pl
Perl Programmers Reference Guide B::Terse(3)
NAME
B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
SYNOPSIS
perl -MO=Terse[,OPTIONS] foo.pl
DESCRIPTION
This module prints the contents of the parse tree, but without as much
information as CPAN module B::Debug. For comparison, "print "Hello,
world."" produced 96 lines of output from B::Debug, but only 6 from
B::Terse.
This module is useful for people who are writing their own back end, or
who are learning about the Perl internals. It's not useful to the
average programmer.
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>.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-532 |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.perl.org/.
perl v5.32.0 2020-06-14 B::Terse(3)