re: [MacPerl] Debugging problem

[schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us (Paul Schinder)]

"Brian L. Matthews" <blm@halcyon.com> writes:
} Consider the following script:
} 
} $x = 'hello';
} 
} &mysub ();
} 
} sub
} mysub
} {
}       my $x = 'goodbye';
} 
}       print "in mysub\n";
} }
} 
} If I debug this on a Unix system running perl5.003, and step through it
} until I'm about to do the print line in mysub, and do a p $x, it prints
} goodbye as expected. However, if I do the same thing under MacPerl
} 5.0.7r1m, it prints hello, and in fact can't seem to see any lexically
} scoped variables. Is this a known problem? Does anyone else have this
} problem? It makes things darn difficult to debug when you can't see about
} 90% of your variables. :-)

That's the MacPerl "my bug" at work.  It's fixed in 5.10.  Get the 5.10
beta you need and you'll be able to see your lexical variables in the
debugger again.

} 
} Brian
} 
} 
} 
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