NAME

       pmeth - show a Perl class's methods

DESCRIPTION

       Given a class name, print out all methods available to that class.  It does this by
       loading in the class module, and walking its symbol table and those of its ancestor
       classes.  A regular method call shows up simply:

           $ pmeth IO::Socket | grep '^con'
           confess
           configure
           connect
           connected

       But one that came from else where is noted with one or more "via" notations:

           DESTROY via IO::Handle
           export via Exporter via IO::Handle

       A base-class method that is unavailable due to being hidden by a close derived-class
       method by the same name (but accessible via SUPER::) is indicated by a leading
       "[overridden]" before it:

           [overridden] new via IO::Handle

       Constants declared via constant have a leading "[constant]" added to the output, but XS
       "define"'s are not yet so flagged.

EXAMPLES

           $ pmeth IO::Socket
           AF_INET
           AF_UNIX
           INADDR_ANY
           INADDR_BROADCAST
           INADDR_LOOPBACK
           INADDR_NONE
           SOCK_DGRAM
           SOCK_RAW
           SOCK_STREAM
           accept
           bind
           carp
           confess
           configure
           connect
           connected
           croak
           getsockopt
           import
           inet_aton
           inet_ntoa
           listen
           new
           pack_sockaddr_in
           pack_sockaddr_un
           peername
           protocol
           recv
           register_domain
           send
           setsockopt
           shutdown
           sockaddr_in
           sockaddr_un
           sockdomain
           socket
           socketpair
           sockname
           sockopt
           socktype
           timeout
           unpack_sockaddr_in
           unpack_sockaddr_un
           DESTROY via IO::Handle
           SEEK_CUR via IO::Handle
           SEEK_END via IO::Handle
           SEEK_SET via IO::Handle
           _IOFBF via IO::Handle
           _IOLBF via IO::Handle
           _IONBF via IO::Handle
           _open_mode_string via IO::Handle
           autoflush via IO::Handle
           blocking via IO::Handle
           [overridden] carp via IO::Handle
           clearerr via IO::Handle
           close via IO::Handle
           [overridden] confess via IO::Handle
           constant via IO::Handle
           [overridden] croak via IO::Handle
           eof via IO::Handle
           error via IO::Handle
           fcntl via IO::Handle
           fdopen via IO::Handle
           fileno via IO::Handle
           flush via IO::Handle
           format_formfeed via IO::Handle
           format_line_break_characters via IO::Handle
           format_lines_left via IO::Handle
           format_lines_per_page via IO::Handle
           format_name via IO::Handle
           format_page_number via IO::Handle
           format_top_name via IO::Handle
           format_write via IO::Handle
           formline via IO::Handle
           gensym via IO::Handle
           getc via IO::Handle
           getline via IO::Handle
           getlines via IO::Handle
           gets via IO::Handle
           input_line_number via IO::Handle
           input_record_separator via IO::Handle
           ioctl via IO::Handle
           [overridden] new via IO::Handle
           new_from_fd via IO::Handle
           opened via IO::Handle
           output_field_separator via IO::Handle
           output_record_separator via IO::Handle
           print via IO::Handle
           printf via IO::Handle
           printflush via IO::Handle
           qualify via IO::Handle
           qualify_to_ref via IO::Handle
           read via IO::Handle
           setbuf via IO::Handle
           setvbuf via IO::Handle
           stat via IO::Handle
           sync via IO::Handle
           sysread via IO::Handle
           syswrite via IO::Handle
           truncate via IO::Handle
           ungensym via IO::Handle
           ungetc via IO::Handle
           untaint via IO::Handle
           write via IO::Handle
           _push_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
           export via Exporter via IO::Handle
           export_fail via Exporter via IO::Handle
           export_ok_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
           export_tags via Exporter via IO::Handle
           export_to_level via Exporter via IO::Handle
           [overridden] import via Exporter via IO::Handle
           require_version via Exporter via IO::Handle
           VERSION via UNIVERSAL
           can via UNIVERSAL
           [overridden] import via UNIVERSAL
           isa via UNIVERSAL

NOTE

       Perl makes no distinction between functions, procedures, and methods, nor whether they are
       public or nominally private, nor whether a method is nominally a class method, an object
       method, or both.  They all show up as subs in the package namespace.  So if your class
       says "use Carp", you just polluted your namespace with things like croak() and confess(),
       which will appear to be available as method calls on objects of your class.

SEE ALSO

       perltoot(1), perlobj(1)

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS

       Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

       Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Mark Leighton Fisher.

LICENSE

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
       (a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License".
       (This is the Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

       Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as
       pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl "Artistic License".