I'm afraid I'm not really sure what it is you're after. You say you want to look at changes in an object, perhaps in a debugger session, but then you say "a debugger is problematic". What am I missing?

At the risk of offering advice that's too general for your query, I have found the likes of Data::Dumper (or more recently Data::Dump) to be more than sufficient for my data inspection needs, from the simple to the arcane. Both are extensible enough to flex to almost any whim. Depending on the type of application or module, and its stage of development, where I actually send those dumps changes. Usually (and this includes headless serial terminals), I can find a way to snag Perl's output in a shell, log, or web output, which is good enough for me.

And usually, my tests hit the mark reasonably well, so typically my "live" debugging is rather minimal.

What is it in particular about your current project that renders all of this impossible or prohibitively inconvenient? Perhaps I can offer more specific advice with a better description.

In reply to Re: Object Browser for Perl? by rjt
in thread Object Browser for Perl? by QM

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