NAME

PPI::Statement::Scheduled - A scheduled code block

INHERITANCE

  PPI::Statement::Scheduled
  isa PPI::Statement::Sub
      isa PPI::Statement
          isa PPI::Node
              isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION

A scheduled code block is one that is intended to be run at a specific time during the loading process.

There are five types of scheduled block:

  BEGIN {
        # Executes as soon as this block is fully defined
        ...
  }

  CHECK {
        # Executes after overall compile-phase in reverse order
        ...
  }

  UNITCHECK {
        # Executes after compile-phase of individual module in reverse order
        ...
  }

  INIT {
        # Executes just before run-time
        ...
  }

  END {
        # Executes as late as possible in reverse order
        ...
  }

Technically these scheduled blocks are actually subroutines, and in fact may have 'sub' in front of them.

METHODS

type

The type method returns the type of scheduled block, which should always be one of 'BEGIN', 'CHECK', 'UNITCHECK', 'INIT' or 'END'.

TO DO

- Write unit tests for this package

SUPPORT

See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

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.