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 four types of scheduled block:

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

CHECK {
	# Executes after compile-phase 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', '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 - 2008 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.