Re: [MacPerl] Stupid Debugger Questions

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

On 10:27 PM 12/27/00 Ronald J Kimball
<rjk@linguist.Thayer.Dartmouth.EDU> wrote:

> The V and X debugger commands are used to view variables in a
> specific package.  However, lexical variables (those declared with
> my) are not in any package.  The x command should be used to examine
> the values of lexical variables.

That's unfortunate.

<flamesuit protection="highest">

Even gdb can do that.  Maybe there isn't the notion of a stack frame in
perl?

</flamesuit>

> a and A weren't implemented properly in old versions of the Perl
> debugger. :/ Fortunately, the debugger is backwards compatible; you
> can :/ download the source for 5.6.0 and use its perl5db.pl in your
> current installation.

That is good to know.  Next time this bug annoys me, I will fix my copy.

Thanks,
Jim

-- 
Jim Correia                                Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com                     <http://web.barebones.com>

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