PPI::Statement::Scheduled(3)               User Contributed Perl Documentation


NAME
       PPI::Statement::Scheduled - A scheduled code block

INHERITANCE
         PPI::Statement::Scheduled
         isa PPI::Statement::Sub
             isa PPI::Statement
                 isa PPI::Node
                     isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION
       A scheduled code block is one that is intended to be run at a specific
       time during the loading process.

       There are five types of scheduled block:

         BEGIN {
               # Executes as soon as this block is fully defined
               ...
         }

         CHECK {
               # Executes after overall compile-phase in reverse order
               ...
         }

         UNITCHECK {
               # Executes after compile-phase of individual module in reverse order
               ...
         }

         INIT {
               # Executes just before run-time
               ...
         }

         END {
               # Executes as late as possible in reverse order
               ...
         }

       Technically these scheduled blocks are actually subroutines, and in
       fact may have 'sub' in front of them.

METHODS
   type
       The "type" method returns the type of scheduled block, which should
       always be one of 'BEGIN', 'CHECK', 'UNITCHECK', 'INIT' or 'END'.

TO DO
       - Write unit tests for this package

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 v5.38.2                      2024-05-12      PPI::Statement::Scheduled(3)