PPI::Statement::PackagUser Contributed Perl DocumentPPI::Statement::Package(3)NAMEPPI::Statement::Package - A package statement
INHERITANCEPPI::Statement::Package
isa PPI::Statement
isa PPI::Node
isa PPI::Element
DESCRIPTION
Most PPI::Statement subclasses are assigned based on the value of the
first token or word found in the statement. When PPI encounters a
statement starting with 'package', it converts it to a
"PPI::Statement::Package" object.
When working with package statements, please remember that packages
only exist within their scope, and proper support for scoping has yet
to be completed in PPI.
However, if the immediate parent of the package statement is the top
level PPI::Document object, then it can be considered to define
everything found until the next top-level "file scoped" package
statement.
A file may, however, contain nested temporary package, in which case
you are mostly on your own :)
METHODS
"PPI::Statement::Package" has a number of methods in addition to the
standard PPI::Statement, PPI::Node and PPI::Element methods.
namespace
Most package declarations are simple, and just look something like
package Foo::Bar;
The "namespace" method returns the name of the declared package, in the
above case 'Foo::Bar'. It returns this exactly as written and does not
attempt to clean up or resolve things like ::Foo to main::Foo.
If the package statement is done any different way, it returns false.
file_scoped
Regardless of whether it is named or not, the "file_scoped" method will
test to see if the package declaration is a top level "file scoped"
statement or not, based on its location.
In general, returns true if it is a "file scoped" package declaration
with an immediate parent of the top level Document, or false if not.
Note that if the PPI DOM tree does not have a PPI::Document object at
as the root element, this will return false. Likewise, it will also
return false if the root element is a PPI::Document::Fragment, as a
fragment of a file does not represent a scope.
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.
perl v5.16.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Statement::Package(3)
