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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 |