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Diffstat (limited to 'ext/B/B/Terse.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/B/B/Terse.pm | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ext/B/B/Terse.pm b/ext/B/B/Terse.pm index 562c58abd8..8e551c5a62 100644 --- a/ext/B/B/Terse.pm +++ b/ext/B/B/Terse.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package B::Terse; -our $VERSION = '1.05'; +our $VERSION = '1.06'; use strict; use B qw(class @specialsv_name); @@ -78,7 +78,15 @@ B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops =head1 DESCRIPTION -This version of B::Terse is really just a wrapper that calls B::Concise +This module prints the contents of the parse tree, but without as much +information as L<B::Debug>. For comparison, C<print "Hello, world."> +produced 96 lines of output from B::Debug, but only 6 from B::Terse. + +This module is useful for people who are writing their own back end, +or who are learning about the Perl internals. It's not useful to the +average programmer. + +This version of B::Terse is really just a wrapper that calls L<B::Concise> with the B<-terse> option. It is provided for compatibility with old scripts (and habits) but using B::Concise directly is now recommended instead. |