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+#!./perl
+
+BEGIN {
+ chdir 't' if -d 't';
+ @INC = '../lib';
+}
+
+use Test::More tests => 15;
+
+use_ok( 'B::Terse' );
+
+# indent should return a string indented four spaces times the argument
+is( B::Terse::indent(2), ' ' x 8, 'indent works with an argument' );
+is( B::Terse::indent(), '', 'indent works with no argument' );
+
+# this should fail without a reference
+eval { B::Terse::terse('scalar') };
+like( $@, qr/not a reference/, 'terse() caught bad parameters okay' );
+
+# now point it at a sub and see what happens
+sub foo {}
+
+my $sub;
+eval{ $sub = B::Terse::compile('', 'foo') };
+is( $@, '', 'compile() worked without error' );
+ok( defined &$sub, 'got a valid subref back from compile()' );
+
+# and point it at a real sub and hope the returned ops look alright
+my $out = tie *STDOUT, 'TieOut';
+$sub = B::Terse::compile('', 'bar');
+$sub->();
+
+# now build some regexes that should match the dumped ops
+my ($hex, $op) = ('\(0x[a-f0-9]+\)', '\s+\w+');
+my %ops = map { $_ => qr/$_ $hex$op/ }
+ qw ( OP COP LOOP PMOP UNOP BINOP LOGOP LISTOP );
+
+# split up the output lines into individual ops (terse is, well, terse!)
+# use an array here so $_ is modifiable
+my @lines = split(/\n+/, $out->read);
+foreach (@lines) {
+ next unless /\S/;
+ s/^\s+//;
+ if (/^([A-Z]+)\s+/) {
+ my $op = $1;
+ next unless exists $ops{$op};
+ like( $_, $ops{$op}, "$op appears okay" );
+ delete $ops{$op};
+ s/$ops{$op}//;
+ redo if $_;
+ }
+}
+
+warn "# didn't find " . join(' ', keys %ops) if keys %ops;
+
+# XXX:
+# this tries to get at all tersified optypes in B::Terse
+# if you add AV, NULL, PADOP, PVOP, or SPECIAL, add it to the regex above too
+#
+use vars qw( $a $b );
+sub bar {
+ # OP SVOP COP IV here or in sub definition
+ my @bar = (1, 2, 3);
+
+ # got a GV here
+ my $foo = $a + $b;
+
+ # NV here
+ $a = 1.234;
+
+ # this is awful, but it gives a PMOP
+ my $boo = split('', $foo);
+
+ # PMOP
+ LOOP: for (1 .. 10) {
+ last LOOP if $_ % 2;
+ }
+
+ # make a PV
+ $foo = "a string";
+}
+
+# Schwern's example of finding an RV
+my $path = join " ", map { qq["-I$_"] } @INC;
+my $redir = $^O eq 'MacOS' ? '' : "2>&1";
+my $items = qx{$^X $path "-MO=Terse" -le "print \\42" $redir};
+like( $items, qr/RV $hex \\42/, 'found an RV, appears okay!' );
+
+package TieOut;
+
+sub TIEHANDLE {
+ bless( \(my $out), $_[0] );
+}
+
+sub PRINT {
+ my $self = shift;
+ $$self .= join('', @_);
+}
+
+sub PRINTF {
+ my $self = shift;
+ $$self .= sprintf(@_);
+}
+
+sub read {
+ my $self = shift;
+ return substr($$self, 0, length($$self), '');
+}