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The Perl debugger can be your superpower

Mark Gardner on March 09, 2021

We’ve all been there: Deep in the bowels of a program, trying to figure out why something’s not working right. Maybe a variable isn’t getting the ...
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Ovid

I've modified mine to use Data::Printer for dumping output from the x command, and show several lines of context while debugging. I also have it skip over several modules (such as Moose) whose internals I don't want to wade through while debugging.

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Eugen Konkov

More about debugging: youtube.com/watch?v=AyyFQJjk7Lw

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

Perl Debugger is useful, but not very popular, so it's nice to see an introduction.