POD::SIMPLE::DEBUG(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to Pod::Simple::Debug(3pm) — the little mod that puts Pod::Simple into trace/debug mode. That's literally the whole vibe. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

You can do the simple thing:

use Pod::Simple::Debug (5);  # or some integer

Or:

my $debuglevel;
use Pod::Simple::Debug (\$debuglevel, 0);
...some stuff that uses Pod::Simple to do stuff, but which
 you don't want debug output from...

$debug_level = 4;
...some stuff that uses Pod::Simple to do stuff, but which
 you DO want debug output from...

$debug_level = 0;

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

This is an internal module for controlling the debug level (a.k.a. trace level) of Pod::Simple. This is of interest only to Pod::Simple developers. no cap, it's dev business 👑

⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

okay warning bestie: you should load this module before loading Pod::Simple (or any Pod::Simple-based class). If you try loading Pod::Simple::Debug after &Pod::Simple::DEBUG is already defined, Pod::Simple::Debug will throw a fatal error to the effect that "It's too late to call Pod::Simple::Debug". 😭

Also note that the use Pod::Simple::Debug (\$x, somenum) mode will make Pod::Simple (et al) run rather slower, since &Pod::Simple::DEBUG won't be a constant sub anymore, and so Pod::Simple (et al) won't compile with constant-folding. it's giving performance hit, fr fr 💀

🧠 GUTS 🧠

Doing this:

use Pod::Simple::Debug (5);  # or some integer

is basically equivalent to:

BEGIN { sub Pod::Simple::DEBUG () {5} }  # or some integer
use Pod::Simple ();

And this:

use Pod::Simple::Debug (\$debug_level,0);  # or some integer

is basically equivalent to this:

my $debug_level;
BEGIN { $debug_level = 0 }
BEGIN { sub Pod::Simple::DEBUG () { $debug_level }
use Pod::Simple ();

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• Pod::Simple
• The article "Constants in Perl", in The Perl Journal issue 21. See <http://interglacial.com/tpj/21/>.

🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/>. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>. 🛠️✨

©️ COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS ©️

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired. 🙈

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

• Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
• Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
• David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

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