RE: y command

2004-09-21 Thread richard.foley
Excellent. Ciao Richard Foley http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/ >-Original Message- >From: Desany, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Dienstag, 21. September 2004 15:41 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: y command > > >Ah. > >Too bad. FWIW if I wrap my entire script in "

RE: y command

2004-09-20 Thread richard.foley
Brian, I think you might have to be in a subroutine for it to do it's magic. >From the PadWalker docs: inspect (and even change!) lexical variables in any subroutine which called you .. Ciao Richard Foley http://www.oreilly.com/ca

RE: [debugger] break on watch ?

2003-11-04 Thread richard.foley
>True, but are we running 5.8.x in production? > >Also, isn't 'w' (lowercase) "window" -- show a patch of code? >Not unlike >the '-' and 'l' commands? > Not anymore. w is set watch variable W is delete watch variable l is list code v is view window of code (mu

RE: [debugger] break on watch ?

2003-11-04 Thread richard.foley
>For the Debugger, take a look at the W command -- Set Watch >Point (doc in >Camel, under "Debugger Commands > Tracing" > Make that the 'w' command. Uppercase 'W' is deprecated as of 5.8.0. Richard Foley --- Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen > >B > >At 08:55 PM 11/3/2003 +0200, Gabor Szabo

RE: [DEBUGGER] break point in "required" code

2003-09-16 Thread richard.foley
Looks odd. Appears to have different behaviour depending on whether you used '::' or '/' as the seperator. Which is clearly not quite what you meant. But if it works on the second iteration, just call it twice :-) Or try using '/' first time round and see what happens? Richard Foley --- Ciao

RE: [DEBUGGER] break point in "required" code

2003-09-16 Thread richard.foley
Use the 'onload breakpoint' facility: b load module Then restart the debugger: R Richard Foley --- Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen >-Original Message- >From: Gabor Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:30 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >S

RE: Existing books on debugging ?

2003-08-19 Thread richard.foley
>It caused me some consternation when "Debugging Perl" came out >while I was I agree, and think there's much room for this kind of book, but it appears unpopular with publishers. Maybe they know something we don't, or maybe it's just one of those things like a skeleton in the cupboard. Everyo

RE: Existing books on debugging ?

2003-08-18 Thread richard.foley
>Of course we can all point at "Perl Debugged" but I don't know >any other book talking about debugging. > Well, there will be my (small) effort, out in November, if O'Reilly ever get around to printing the blessed thing :-] >What books out there are of use for those wanting to learn debugging?

RE: perlmonks debugger thread

2003-08-14 Thread richard.foley
>As to the arguments for not using the debugger, they sound somewhat religious. >I'm not about to claim Larry is wrong for not using it. Genau. I don't think many of us would stand up and say we are on a par with Larry and programming in Perl, perhaps he only needs the print statement to solve

perlmonks debugger thread

2003-08-14 Thread richard.foley
Pros and cons: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=48474 Richard Foley --- Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee

RE: Optimization?

2003-08-14 Thread richard.foley
You can also use the UsageOnly option in the debugger used via the 'V' command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ perl580 -d -e 0 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.19 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 DB<1> use warnings

RE: what is this list about ?

2003-08-04 Thread richard.foley
Gabor, We (the Royal we :) should also setup a K/Wiki on the web site somewhere for general use, some time. Richard Foley --- Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen >-Original Message- >From: Gabor Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:51 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Welcome

2003-07-29 Thread richard.foley
Welcome to the perl debugger mailing list :-) Our intention is to make this a forum for any and all discussions relating to the perl debugger, as well as debugging with perl. There is, or will be, a web site at: http://debugger.perl.org/ Enjoy. Richard Foley --- Ciao - shorter than Au