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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 recom-mended recommended
       mended 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 soft-ware software
       ware might be advised to choose a more user-friendly output format. The B::OP "terse" method, how-ever, however,
       ever, 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>.



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