Devel:...Context(3pm)

💖 Devel::MAT::Context — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, this is Devel:...Context(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's literally all about representing one single call context state. slay.

✨ NAME ✨

Devel::MAT::Context — represent a single call context state 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so. objects in this class each represent one level of state from the call context. no cap. and these contexts? they represent function calls between perl functions. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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👑 COMMON METHODS 👑

the methods everybody gets, no matter what kind of context they are:

🎀 gimme

$gimme = $ctx->gimme;

hands you back the gimme value of the call context. yes that's really what it's called, iykyk ✨

🦋 file, line, location

$file = $ctx->file;

$line = $ctx->line;

$location = $ctx->location;

these three give you the file, the line, or the location — and the location comes formatted like ("FILE line LINE"). iconic little trio fr fr 🌈

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🍓 Devel::MAT::Context::SUB 🍓

this one represents a context that is a subroutine call. main character energy, honestly.

💜 cv

$cv = $ctx->cv;

returns the CV</> which this call is to. (yes, the CV. the code-y one. you got this 💅)

wait, careful with that tag — let me say it clean: it returns the CV which this call is to. ✨

🧚 args

$args = $ctx->args;

returns the arguments AV — aka the thing that represents the @_ argument array. the whole squad of args, together 🫶

🌟 olddepth

$olddepth = $ctx->olddepth;

returns the old depth of the context — which is lowkey just "the depth the CV would be at after this context returns". think of it as the depth it's heading back to 💫

🎀 depth

$depth = $ctx->depth;

returns the actual depth of the context. and here's the tea: this is inferred at load time, by looking at the olddepth of the next inner-nested call to the same CV — or, if no other call exists, from the actual depth of the CV. clever girl behavior, honestly 🔥

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🌈 Devel::MAT::Context::TRY 🌈

this class represents a context which is a block eval {} call. block eval girlies, this one's for you 💖

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⭐ Devel::MAT::Context::EVAL ⭐

this one represents a context which is a string eval EXPR call. the stringy sibling ✨

🦋 code

$sv = $ctx->code;

returns the SV containing the text string that's being evaluated. it's giving the vibes, evaluated 💅

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> — thank you for your service, king 👑

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no skips, no shortcuts, we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️✨

this cutie was documented for perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-21, as part of Devel:...Context(3pm) — and that's a wrap, mwah 💖🎀🦋