B::Terse

B::Terse(3)	       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 version of B::Terse is really just a wrapper that calls B::Con-
       cise 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 McCa-
       mant, <smcc@MIT.EDU>.



perl v5.8.8			  2001-09-21			  B::Terse(3)