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commit 53967bb90ff3867cdf0a6117faed24c717c12c22
Author: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Aug 7 13:25:21 2009 +0200

    perltodo: Propagate compilation hints to the debugger
    
    Suggested by Ben Morrow
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Summary of changes:
 pod/perltodo.pod |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index ad78744..880fb16 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -898,6 +898,15 @@ 
L<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-03/msg00481.html>
 There is no method on tied filehandles to allow them to be called back by
 formats.
 
+=head2 Propagate compilation hints to the debugger
+
+Currently a debugger started with -dE on the command-line doesn't see the
+features enabled by -E. More generally hints (C<$^H> and C<%^H>) aren't
+propagated to the debugger. Probably it would be a good thing to propagate
+hints from the innermost non-C<DB::> scope: this would make code eval'ed
+in the debugger see the features (and strictures, etc.) currently in
+scope.
+
 =head2 Attach/detach debugger from running program
 
 The old perltodo notes "With C<gdb>, you can attach the debugger to a running

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