PPI::To...tructure(3)

✨ PPI::Token::Structure ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the PPI::To...tructure(3) page (that's the manual name, don't worry about the weird truncation, that's just how the terminal does it 💅). This is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it is genuinely one of the most lowkey important little pages in the whole PPI universe. Let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

PPI::Token::Structure — the token class for characters that define code structure. it's giving scaffolding, it's giving load-bearing walls, it's giving "without me the whole tree falls down" 💖

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🦋 INHERITANCE 🦋

the family tree, literally:

PPI::Token::Structure
isa PPI::Token
    isa PPI::Element

so it's a PPI::Token, and a PPI::Token is a PPI::Element. generational excellence, no cap 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The PPI::Token::Structure class is used for tokens that control the general tree structure of the code. these are the little guys who decide who's inside who and where one thought ends and the next one starts. main character energy, fr fr.

so what's actually in it? seven characters, bestie. count 'em:

• the six brace characters from the round, curly and square pairs — that's (, ), {, }, [, and ] 🎀
• plus the semi-colon statement separator ;

that's it. that's the whole cast. seven icons and they carry the entire structure of your program on their backs 😭💖

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🔥 METHODS 🔥

okay so here's the tea: this class has no methods beyond what is provided by its PPI::Token and PPI::Element parent classes.

not a single one of its own. it just shows up, holds a brace, and lets the parents do the work. honestly? respect. it knows its role and it ate 🍓

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🌈 SUPPORT 🌈

See the support section in the main module. (go check the main module bestie, that's where the help lives 🫶)

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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, you made it!! seven characters, zero methods, one extremely solid inheritance chain. slay ✨

this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — bye bestie, go structure some code 💖💅