Perl Debugger "continue" command could take filename?

QM has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Close reading of the perldebug doc shows that continue takes a optional line number or sub name. break takes an optional file prefix to the line number.

Is there any reason why continue could not take an optional file prefix for both line numbers and subs?

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Re: Perl Debugger "continue" command could take filename? by LanX (Saint) on Jan 19, 2015 at 14:15 UTC
Hello Mr Feynman, > Is there any reason why continue could not take an optional file prefix for both line numbers and subs? Just implementation. Perldebug grew over decades since Perl 4 by little patches. (at least that's how it looks like) The command loop alone spans hundreds of lines and is far from being generic parsing ( i.e. successive if regex and regex and regex then grep data and goto label or call sub) AFAIS recent extensions often silently broke other features. Adding your request might be either simple or impossible without a complete rewrite. Good luck. Cheers Rolf PS: Je suis Charlie!	[reply]

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Re: Perl Debugger "continue" command could take filename?
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 19, 2015 at 14:15 UTC

> Is there any reason why continue could not take an optional file prefix for both line numbers and subs?

Just implementation.

Perldebug grew over decades since Perl 4 by little patches. (at least that's how it looks like)

The command loop alone spans hundreds of lines and is far from being generic parsing ( i.e. successive if regex and regex and regex then grep data and goto label or call sub)

AFAIS recent extensions often silently broke other features.

Adding your request might be either simple or impossible without a complete rewrite.

Good luck.

Cheers Rolf

PS: Je suis Charlie!

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