Pod::Simple::Debug.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2003-11-02 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Pod::Simple::Debug -- put Pod::Simple into trace/debug mode

SYNOPSIS


 use Pod::Simple::Debug (5);  # or some integer



Or:


 my $debuglevel;

 use Pod::Simple::Debug (\$debuglevel, 0);

 ...some stuff that uses Pod::Simple to do stuff, but which

  you don't want debug output from...




 $debug_level = 4;

 ...some stuff that uses Pod::Simple to do stuff, but which

  you DO want debug output from...




 $debug_level = 0;



DESCRIPTION

This is an internal module for controlling the debug level (a.k.a. trace level) of Pod::Simple. This is of interest only to Pod::Simple developers.

CAVEATS

Note that you should load this module before loading Pod::Simple (or any Pod::Simple-based class). If you try loading Pod::Simple::Debug after &Pod::Simple::DEBUG is already defined, Pod::Simple::Debug will throw a fatal error to the effect that ``it's s too late to call Pod::Simple::Debug''.

Note that the "use Pod::Simple::Debug (\$x, somenum)" mode will make Pod::Simple (et al) run rather slower, since &Pod::Simple::DEBUG won't be a constant sub anymore, and so Pod::Simple (et al) won't compile with constant-folding.

GUTS

Doing this:

  use Pod::Simple::Debug (5);  # or some integer



is basically equivalent to:


  BEGIN { sub Pod::Simple::DEBUG () {5} }  # or some integer

  use Pod::Simple ();



And this:


  use Pod::Simple::Debug (\$debug_level,0);  # or some integer



is basically equivalent to this:


  my $debug_level;

  BEGIN { $debug_level = 0 }

  BEGIN { sub Pod::Simple::DEBUG () { $debug_level }

  use Pod::Simple ();



SEE ALSO

Pod::Simple

The article ``Constants in Perl'', in The Perl Journal issue 21. See <http://www.sysadminmag.com/tpj/issues/vol5_5/>

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Sean M. Burke "sburke@cpan.org"