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| author | Stéphane Payrard <stef@mongueurs.net> | 2003-07-21 23:36:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-07-24 13:12:08 +0000 |
| commit | ea5ec3060d131488dc0c12046e95afc4ec64909a (patch) | |
| tree | 9aaa15cdef16aa138398bf2f0c5efae0dc346c91 /pod/perldebug.pod | |
| parent | 1d296f1cbe6353bca53c99095d0fa4c3d9dcc0fb (diff) | |
| download | perl-ea5ec3060d131488dc0c12046e95afc4ec64909a.tar.gz | |
[patch] perldebug.pod clarification
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diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index bde6701c41..ee9fa97d1c 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ Any command not recognized by the debugger is directly executed (C<eval>'d) as Perl code in the current package. (The debugger uses the DB package for keeping its own state information.) +Note that the said C<eval> is bound by an implicit scope. As a +result any newly introduced lexical variable or any modified +capture buffer content is lost after the eval. The debugger is a +nice environment to learn Perl, but if you interactively experiment using +material which should be in the same scope, stuff it in one line. + For any text entered at the debugger prompt, leading and trailing whitespace is first stripped before further processing. If a debugger command coincides with some function in your own program, merely precede the |