PPI::To...:Unknown(3)

💖 NAME 💖

PPI::Token::Unknown — the token that's like "idk what I am yet bestie, give me a sec" ✨ aka a token of unknown or as-yet undetermined type 🦋

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🫶 INHERITANCE 🫶

okay so the family tree goes like this, no cap:

PPI::Token::Unknown
isa PPI::Token
    isa PPI::Element

it's giving legacy — she's a PPI::Token, and PPI::Token is a PPI::Element. periodt 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕ — objects of the type PPI::Token::Unknown exist primarily inside the tokenizer, where they are temporarily brought into existence for a very short time to represent a token that could be one of a number of types. it's literally the "under construction" placeholder of the token world 🚧✨

generally, they only exist for a character or two, after which they are resolved and converted into the correct type. so they're like the main character for approximately 0.3 seconds and then they hand the crown over 👑

💀 major bug alert — for an object of this type to survive the parsing process is considered a major bug. like, it's not supposed to make it out alive, fr fr.

and please 😭 — report any PPI::Token::Unknown you encounter in a PPI::Document object as a bug. if you see one wandering around outside the tokenizer, something has gone deeply wrong and the devs want to know 🫶

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🎀 SUPPORT 🎀

see the support section in the main module 💖 (yes bestie, that's the whole thing, go check 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 💜 — this one came from the perl v5.42.0 docs, dated 2026-01-17, filed under PPI::To...:Unknown(3) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. slay, go touch some grass, bye 🦋✨