POD

POD

The POD keyword is used to mark things as "plain-old-data". Generally, when a construct is marked as POD, they will be immune to certain management procedures that would normally take effect. Depending on the context in which POD is used, different management procedures are affected.

There are three main contexts in which POD is used

• In function/method parameters (e.g. func __modulus__(lhs POD String, rhs String) String)
• In variable declarations (e.g. my_string POD String)
• In plain-old-data assignment (e.g. name = POD firstname)