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diff --git a/pod/perldebguts.pod b/pod/perldebguts.pod index 827bb2f7d0..c46dfd99df 100644 --- a/pod/perldebguts.pod +++ b/pod/perldebguts.pod @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ F<INSTALL> podpage in the Perl source tree. For example, whenever you call Perl's built-in C<caller> function from the package DB, the arguments that the corresponding stack -frame was called with are copied to the @DB::args array. The -general mechanisms is enabled by calling Perl with the B<-d> switch, the +frame was called with are copied to the C<@DB::args> array. The +general mechanism is enabled by calling Perl with the B<-d> switch, the following additional features are enabled (cf. L<perlvar/$^P>): =over 4 @@ -111,11 +111,12 @@ The minimal working debugger consists of one line sub DB::DB {} -which is quite handy as contents of C<PERL5DB> environment +which you could even fit into the C<PERL5DB> environment variable: $ PERL5DB="sub DB::DB {}" perl -d your-script +although it doesn't do anything that tells you it's working... Another brief debugger, slightly more useful, could be created with only the line: |