Brethern

How can I tell if a string is a pragma? I'm scanning perl code for dependencies, and want to ignore use xxx when xxx is a pragma. I was advised in the Chatterbox:

pragma's are traditionally all lowercase but I think you are likely to only find good rules of thumb not exact assurances
Problem is that, although modules are traditionally capitalized, a bunch of them in the codebase I'm looking at are not.

I'm extending Module::Dependency. For my present purpose (building a set of graphs of a large codebase) it may be enough to make a list of the most popular pragmas (pragmae?) and just exclude those. However, I'd like to actually post my updates back to CPAN.1 If I do that, I'd like a comprehensive solution.

throop

1Whether I actually get to do that is a question in process. I work for a large company. My coding labor is billed to a client. I asked my manager and a company lawyer shaman whether it was proper for me to post improvements back to CPAN. They're still busy reading bird entrails and casting bones, trying to decide.

In reply to Is it a pragma or a module? by throop

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