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, <mbeattieATsable.uk>. This wrapper was written by
       Stephen McCamant, <smccATMIT.EDU>.



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-01                                              B::Terse(3pm)