PPI::Token::End(3)

💖 PPI::Token::End 💖

okay bestie so welcome to PPI::Token::End, which is genuinely part of the Perl documentation, and which is also, per its own words, about completely useless content after the __END__ tag. the self-roast is real. i'm obsessed. ✨

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🦋 NAME 🦋

PPI::Token::End — Completely useless content after the __END__ tag 💀

like. that's the name. that's the whole thing. the module said "i'm useless" and we're all just supposed to keep reading. iconic honestly.

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🧬 INHERITANCE 🧬

the family tree, and yes it ate:

PPI::Token::End
is a PPI::Token
        is a PPI::Element

so it's a PPI::Token, which is a PPI::Element. generationally blessed. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so if you've already read PPI::Token::Whitespace, you already know the whole concept of documents "floating in a sea of PPI::Token::Whitespace". beautiful mental image. 10/10.

yeah well. after the __END__ tag, that sea does not exist. 😭

once you hit __END__, it's over bestie. everything after that tag isn't even good enough to be called whitespace. it just straight up does not exist as far as perl — the interpreter itself — is concerned. not me being ghosted by the runtime 💅

but hold on, that doesn't mean there's nothing useful living back there!! most of the time people use the __END__ tag to hide POD content so perl never has to look at it, presumably scoring some tiny lil speed up. slay.

and that's totally fine, because PPI loves POD. 🫶 any POD after the __END__ tag gets parsed into valid PPI::Token::Pod tags like normal, no notes. this class though? this class is for the other thing: "what's after __END__ when it isn't POD".

basically, the completely worthless bits of the file :) 💖

lowkey the most honest documentation in the whole ecosystem and i respect it so much.

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

this class has no method beyond what is provided by its PPI::Token and PPI::Element parent classes.

that's it. that's the methods section. it inherits and vibes. main character energy with zero responsibilities. periodt. ✨

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🧚 SUPPORT 🧚

see the support section in the main module. (go look at the main module bestie, it's all there 💜)

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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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okay that's the whole page, no cap. this was generated from the docs for perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17, filed under PPI::Token::End(3) — mwah, bye bestie, go parse something 💅✨🌸