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B::Keywords(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation B::Keywords(3)

NAME

B::Keywords - Lists of reserved barewords and symbol names

SYNOPSIS

  use B::Keywords qw( @Symbols Barewords );
  print join "\n", @Symbols,
                   @Barewords;

DESCRIPTION

"B::Keywords" supplies seven arrays of keywords: @Scalars, @Arrays, @Hashes, @Filehandles, @Symbols, @Functions, and @Barewords. The @Symbols array includes the contents of each of @Scalars, @Arrays, @Hashes, @Functions and @Filehandles. Similarly, @Barewords adds a few non-function keywords and operators to the @Functions array.

All additions and modifications are welcome.

DATA

@Scalars
@Arrays
@Hashes
@Filehandles
@Functions
The above are lists of variables, special file handles, and built in functions.
@Symbols
This is just the combination of all of the above: variables, file handles, and functions.
@Barewords
This is a list of other special keywords in perl including operators and all the control structures.

EXPORT

Anything can be exported if you desire. Use the :all tag to get everything.

SEE ALSO

keywords.pl from the perl source, perlvar, perlfunc, perldelta.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-B-Keywords at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=B-Keywords>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

  perldoc B::Keywords

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Michael G Schwern for patches

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Joshua ben Jore, All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; version 2, or

b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

This source is in Github: <git://github.com/jbenjore/b-keywords.git>

AUTHOR

Joshua ben Jore <jjore@cpan.org>

2009-03-08 perl v5.10.1