Parse::Perl::CopHintsHash - reified cop_hints_hash structure
This is a class used internally by Parse::Perl to represent part of a lexical environment. It is not meant to be touched by users directly. See Parse::Perl::Environment for the class that represents the whole lexical environment.
An object of this class is a Perl-manipulable handle onto a struct refcounted_he, which is the structure that Perl (from version 5.9.4 onwards) uses to store a runtime-accessible form of the compile-time %^H lexical hints hash. The structures are reference-counted, but because they are not in the SV format they can't directly participate in the usual reference counting of Perl objects. This class is a shim layer to allow the structures to be referenced from Perl objects in a way that propagates reference counting semantics.
struct refcounted_he
%^H
SV
The refcounted_he structure is only accessible from C code. This class does not provide any Perl-level interface to its content.
refcounted_he
On versions of Perl that don't have struct refcounted_he, this class still exists, but represents nothing and should never be encountered.
Parse::Perl, Parse::Perl::Environment
Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Parse::Perl, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Parse::Perl
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Parse::Perl
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.