NAME

B::Fathom - a module to evaluate the readability of Perl code

SYNOPSIS

    perl -MO=Fathom <script>

or

    perl -MO=Fathom,-v <script>

where <script> is the name of the Perl program that you want to evaluate.

-v activates verbose mode, which currently reports the subs that have been skipped over because they seem to be imported.

DESCRIPTION

B::Fathom is a backend to the Perl compiler; it analyzes the syntax of your Perl code, and estimates the readability of your program.

CAVEATS

Because of the nature of the compiler, Fathom has to do some guessing about the syntax of your program. See the comments in the module for specifics.

Fathom doesn't work very well on modules yet.

AUTHOR

Kurt Starsinic <kstar@isinet.com>

COPYRIGHT

    Copyright (c) 1998 Kurt Starsinic.
    This module is free software; you may redistribute it
    and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.