On Jun 24 2002, 4:44 am, davidtg-perl-beginn...@justpickone.org (David T-
G) wrote:
> ...and then Peter Scott said...
> % >% Would you like tracing that goes off when you go into a function? 
Suppose
> % >% if you gave a numeric argument to 't' it would trace up to that 
depth
> % >% in subroutine calls beneath the current level but not beneath? That
> % >% might be doable (as a patch to the debugger).
> % >
> % >Hmmm...  That's a pretty attractive idea, actually.
> %
> % I'll see if I can whack it out.  'Course, it won't show up in an 
actual
> % release until 5.8.1, since 5.8.0 is on the verge of release.

No, that's not a typo, I really am following up a thread from 2002.  I 
finally got around to implementing this patch.  If I'd known how easy it 
was going to be I'd have done it earlier.  Okay, so I'm a bit slow :-)

It's in the blead version of perl and will be in subsequent releases.  
Enjoy.

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