G'day Bernardo,

Welcome to the monastery.

I agree with the previous (Anonymous Monk) respondent in that the description in the PadWalker documentation is adequate and that you need to identify your audience (i.e. those for whom this description is inadequate).

Furthermore, your inability to provide an explanation for your target audience suggests that the problem lies with your comprehension, rather than the documentation. Perhaps that should have been the thrust of your question, instead of a request for paraphrasing the module description. If this is, in fact, the case, then my problem becomes not knowing what part of the documentation you're having problems with. The following may help; if not, please ask for specific information or clarification.

General/introductory documentation:

• perlsub discusses and compares different types of variables.
• See perlfunc for specific variable declarations, e.g. my, our and so on.
• The LEVEL argument, used with a number of PadWalker functions, references caller.

The Pad in PadWalker refers to scratchpad: simplistically, memory used for lexical variables. Here's some references off the top of my head; an internet search for "perl scratchpad" may provide others.

• See perlguts; in particular, the sections Scratchpads and Scratchpads and recursion.
• Chapter 18: Compiling of Programming Perl, 3rd Edition (that's the latest edition I own - equivalent information is possibly in other editions except 1st Edition [that was for Perl4 which didn't have lexical variables]). Actually, I found that as a sample chapter.
• Chapter 3: Typeglobs and Symbol Tables of Advanced Perl Programming (that's the original edition - I don't know if the 2nd Edition has this information).

Most of the online documentation pages have See Also links: I recommend you follow these.

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