PPI::Token::Cast(3)

✨ NAME ✨

PPI::Token::Cast — bestie, it's a prefix that forces a value into a different context 💅

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🌸 INHERITANCE 🌸

Okay so the family tree goes like this, and she's got main character energy all the way up:

PPI::Token::Cast
isa PPI::Token
    isa PPI::Element

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So a "cast" in PPI terms is one or more characters hanging out at the front of something, acting as a prefix that forces a value into a different class or context. Like, it's giving glow-up but for data types. ✨

This covers referencing, dereferencing, and a few other minor cases (iykyk, the little side quests).

For expressions like @$foo or "@{ $foo{bar} }", the @ in both of those cases is a cast. And in this specific situation? It's an array dereference. No cap. 🫶

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

There are literally no additional methods beyond the ones you already get from the parent PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes. She inherited everything, she invented nothing. Iconic behavior honestly. 👑

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🦋 SUPPORT 🦋

See the support section in the main module. (The main module is the mothership, go check her out. 💜)

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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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ok that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading, love u, bye 🎀✨

perl v5.42.0 · 2026-01-17 · PPI::Token::Cast(3) — periodt 💅