PPI::Statement::Variable - Variable declaration statements
# All of the following are variable declarations my $foo = 1; my ($foo, $bar) = (1, 2); our $foo = 1; local $foo; local $foo = 1; LABEL: my $foo = 1;
PPI::Statement::Variable isa PPI::Statement::Expression isa PPI::Statement isa PPI::Node isa PPI::Element
The main intent of the PPI::Statement::Variable class is to describe simple statements that explicitly declare new local or global variables.
PPI::Statement::Variable
Note that this does not make it exclusively the only place where variables are defined, and later on you should expect that the variables method will migrate deeper down the tree to either PPI::Statement or PPI::Node to recognise this fact, but for now it stays here.
variables
The type method checks and returns the declaration type of the statement, which will be one of either 'my', 'local' or 'our'.
type
Returns a string of the type, or undef if the type cannot be detected (which is probably a bug).
undef
As for several other PDOM Element types that can declare variables, the variables method returns a list of the canonical forms of the variables defined by the statement.
Returns a list of the canonical string forms of variables, or the null list if it is unable to find any variables.
- Write unit tests for this
See the support section in the main module
Adam Kennedy, http://ali.as/, cpan@ali.as
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2005 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
To install PPI, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm PPI
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install PPI
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.