Richard Foley wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2008 19:28:08 Heiko Eifeldt wrote: > > > > To Richard: > > Afterwards I realized, $DB::single is to be used as a bitmask. > > So it would be 8 instead of 3, since 4 is already taken. > > > Details, details ;-) > > > The only difference should be the execution of grep/map/sort/... > > > > I either use 's' to do small steps or use 'n' with the intention to > > do bigger steps. But currently I cannot get this behaviour. It is > > not exactly what is documented, but this is what my expectation is > > (silly me). > > <heretic mode off> > > > If you mean: > > 1. n <- next step over everything (including grep/map/sort). > > 2. s <- step into everything (including grep/map/sort). > > 3. forget nn and N. > > Then I would think this would be (mostly very) intuitive change, and > the behaviour (most) people would expect from the debugger, most of > the time. You'd have to check for unwarranted side effects of > course, such that blocks other than single-line grep, map and sort, > remain unaffected, but otherwise it seems to me to be a good idea.
Ok, here is what I did, patch is against Perl 5.10.0. Please review, thanks. My simple tests worked so far. Greetings, Heiko --
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