PPI::Statement::Include - Statements that include other code |
PPI::Statement::Include - Statements that include other code
# The following are all includes use 5.006; use strict; use My::Module; use constant FOO => 'Foo'; require Foo::Bar; require "Foo/Bar.pm"; require $foo if 1; no strict 'refs';
PPI::Statement::Include isa PPI::Statement isa PPI::Node isa PPI::Element
Despite its name, the PPI::Statement::Include
class covers a number
of different types of statement that cover all statements starting with
use
, no
and require
.
But basically, they cover three situations.
Firstly, a dependency on a particular version of perl (for which the
version
method returns true), a pragma (for which the pragma
method
returns true, or the loading (and unloading via no) of modules.
PPI::Statement::Include
has a number of methods in addition to the standard
the PPI::Statement manpage, the PPI::Node manpage and the PPI::Element manpage methods.
The type
method returns the general type of statement ('use'
, 'no'
or 'require'
).
Returns the type as a string, or undef
if the type cannot be detected.
The module
method returns the module name specified in any include
statement. This includes
pragma names, because pragma are implemented
as modules. (And lets face it, the definition of a pragma can be fuzzy
at the best of times in any case)
This covers all of these...
use strict; use My::Module; no strict; require My::Module;
...but does not cover any of these...
use 5.006; require 5.005; require "explicit/file/name.pl";
Returns the module name as a string, or undef
if the include does
not specify a module name.
The pragma
method checks for an include statement's use as a
pragma, and returns it if so.
Or at least, it claims to. In practice it's a lot harder to say exactly what is or isn't a pragma, because the definition is fuzzy.
The intent
of a pragma is to modify the way in which the parser works.
This is done though the use of modules that do various types of internals
magic.
For now, PPI assumes that any ``module name'' that is only a set of
lowercase letters (and perhaps numbers, like use utf8;
). This
behaviour is expected to change, most likely to something that knows
the specific names of the various ``pragmas''.
Returns the name of the pragma, or false ('') if the include is not a pragma.
The version
method checks for an include statement that introduces a
dependency on the version of perl
the code is compatible with.
This covers two specific statements.
use 5.006; require 5.006;
Currently the version is returned as a string, although in future the version may be returned as a numeric literal, or more likely as a version object. Returns false if the statement is not a version dependency.
- Write specific unit tests for this package
See the support section in the main module.
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Copyright 2001 - 2006 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.
PPI::Statement::Include - Statements that include other code |