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PPI::Statement::Variable(3)



NAME

       PPI::Statement::Variable - Variable declaration statements


SYNOPSIS

         # All of the following are variable declarations
         my $foo = 1;
         my ($foo, $bar) = (1, 2);
         our $foo = 1;
         local $foo;
         local $foo = 1;
         LABEL: my $foo = 1;


INHERITANCE

         PPI::Statement::Variable
         isa PPI::Statement::Expression
             isa PPI::Statement
                 isa PPI::Node
                     isa PPI::Element


DESCRIPTION

       The main intent of the "PPI::Statement::Variable" class is to describe
       simple statements that explicitly declare new local or global
       variables.

       Note that this does not make it exclusively the only place where
       variables are defined, and later on you should expect that the
       "variables" method will migrate deeper down the tree to either
       PPI::Statement or PPI::Node to recognise this fact, but for now it
       stays here.


METHODS

   type
       The "type" method checks and returns the declaration type of the
       statement, which will be one of 'my', 'local', 'our', or 'state'.

       Returns a string of the type, or "undef" if the type cannot be detected
       (which is probably a bug).

   variables
       As for several other PDOM Element types that can declare variables, the
       "variables" method returns a list of the canonical forms of the
       variables defined by the statement.

       Returns a list of the canonical string forms of variables, or the null
       list if it is unable to find any variables.

   symbols
       Returns a list of the variables defined by the statement, as
       PPI::Token::Symbols.


TO DO

       - Write unit tests for this


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.



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