PPI::St...edBrace(3)

💅 PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace — wait, that's the truncated one, bestie, the full name is PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace 💅

okay so this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (section 3, if you're keeping score) and it's all about PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace, which is literally the class for an isolated unmatched brace. yes. that's the whole name. she's niche and she knows it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace — Isolated unmatched brace 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sub foo {
    1;
}

} # <--- This is an unmatched brace

see that lonely little } at the bottom? nobody claimed her. she's unmatched. she's the whole point of this module. periodt. 👑

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🧚 INHERITANCE 🧚

PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace
isa PPI::Statement
    isa PPI::Node
        isa PPI::Element

it's giving family tree, it's giving legacy, it's giving four generations of Perl class hierarchy and she's the youngest. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace is a miscellaneous utility class, which is the polite way of saying she doesn't really have a job-job, she's just here. Objects of this type should be rare — or honestly not exist at all — inside normal, valid PPI::Document objects. if you're seeing one of these in a healthy document, something is deeply sus. 💀

she can be a round ')', a square ']' or a curly '}' brace — this class genuinely does not distinguish between them. no shade, she just doesn't care. ✨

here's the lowkey important part: objects of this type are only allocated at a structural level, not a lexical level (because, bestie, they're lexically invalid anyway — that's the whole vibe). 🚩

the presence of a PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace indicates a broken or invalid document. or... maybe a bug in PPI? but far more likely a broken Document. :)

fr fr, that smiley :) at the end of the original is doing a lot of emotional labour and we should respect it. 🙈

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace has no additional methods beyond the default ones provided by PPI::Statement, PPI::Node and PPI::Element.

that's it. that's the section. she inherits everything and adds nothing, and honestly? iconic behaviour. 💅

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🌈 SUPPORT 🌈

see the support section in the main module. iykyk. ⭐

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

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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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and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and find your unmatched braces, or better yet, don't find them, because finding them means your document is broken 😭

this has been perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17, signing off from your local PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace manpage — stay valid out there 🦋✨💖