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NAME

B::Keywords - Lists of reserved barewords and symbol names

SYNOPSIS

  use B::Keywords qw( @Symbols Barewords );
  print join "\n", @Symbols,
                   @Barewords;

DESCRIPTION

B::Keywords supplies seven arrays of keywords: @Scalars, @Arrays, @Hashes, @Filehandles, @Symbols, @Functions, and @Barewords. The @Symbols array includes the contents of each of @Scalars, @Arrays, @Hashes, and @Filehandles. Similarly, @Barewords adds a few non-function keywords and operators to the @Functions array.

All additions and modifications are welcome.

DATA

@Scalars
@Arrays
@Hashes
@Filehandles
@Functions

The above are lists of variables, special file handles, and built in functions.

@Symbols

This is just the combination of all of the above: variables, file handles, and functions.

@Barewords

This is a list of other special keywords in perl including operators and all the control structures.

EXPORT

Anything can be exported if you desire. Use the :all tag to get everything.

SEE ALSO

keywords.pl from the perl source, perlvar, perlfunc, perldelta.

AUTHOR

Joshua ben Jore <jjore@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007, Joshua ben Jore. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2, or

b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.