PPI::St...t::Break(3)

💖 PPI::St...t::Break 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the PPI::St...t::Break(3) page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨ (yes the title is literally truncated like that, that's not me being lazy, that's just the vibe of the man page header 🎀)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

PPI::Statement::Break — the statements that straight up leave, no goodbye, just exit the normal statement flow 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

last;
goto FOO;
next if condition();
return $foo;
redo;

like... iconic behaviour honestly 🦋

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🧚 INHERITANCE 🧚

PPI::Statement::Break
isa PPI::Statement
    isa PPI::Node
        isa PPI::Element

it's giving royal lineage, the whole family tree is here 👑

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

PPI::Statement::Break is here to represent statements that break out of the normal statement flow control. that's the whole job, that's the assignment, and it ate 🔥

the basic types it covers are 'redo', 'goto', 'next', 'last' and 'return' ✨

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

ngl, PPI::Statement::Break has no additional methods beyond the default ones provided by PPI::Statement, PPI::Node and PPI::Element. that's it, that's the tea 🍓

but!! it is expected to gain methods for identifying the line to break to, or the structure to break out of 👀 future plans bestie, watch this space.

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💀 TO DO 💀

• Add the methods to identify the break target
• Add some proper unit testing

(the unit testing one is so real 😭)

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

See the support section in the main module. yep, that's the whole support section, go check the main module, it's got the goods 💖

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> — absolute legend, we stan 👑

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⭐ 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.

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fr fr, that's the whole page — go forth and last responsibly 💅

and that's a wrap on perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17, straight from the PPI::St...t::Break(3) man page itself 🎀✨ bye bestie!! 🦋