POMDUMP(1)
π POMDUMP(1) β like, the Perl docs version, bestie
okay so real quick β this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, which means a Perl person made it and we're all just living in it. it's called pomdump and it's lowkey iconic for one specific job. let's get into it β¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
pomdump β dumps the POM parse tree for a POD document. that's the whole vibe. no cap.
π SYNOPSIS π
pomdump MyFile.pm
that's it. that's the whole invocation. one file, one dream π¦
π DESCRIPTION π
okay so here's what's actually happening under the hood, bestie:
this script uses Pod::POM to parse a Pod document, and then it invokes the dump method on the top level node. the result? a full-on visualization of the structure of the POD document β aka the parse tree π
so like, it's not editing your docs or checking them or anything. it's just showing you the shape of them. the way that parse tree justβ¦ reveals itself. we love a structural moment π«Ά
β AUTHOR β
Andrew Ford <A.Ford@ford-mason.co.uk> β the mastermind, the main character, the one who did that π
π VERSION π
this is version 0.1 of pomdump. baby's first version, and honestly? slay.
π COPYRIGHT π
Copyright (C) 2009 Andrew Ford. All Rights Reserved.
and the legal tea β β this module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. so go forth, remix, redistribute, live your truth π§
π¦ SEE ALSO π¦
for further information please see Pod::POM. that's where the real lore lives, iykyk π
so yeah, that's pomdump. go dump a parse tree, feel something, and remember β this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2015-11-20, so it's vintage and it ate π₯ π
π¦ where this page comes from
- opensuse-leap 16.0: perl-Pod-POM 2.01-bp160.1.12 Β· Artistic-1.0 or GPL-1.0+
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms