I'm not a regular user of the perldebugger, but my understanding was that x worked from the package scope, not the lexical scope. If you wanted to dive down into the lexical scope, you needed y (and the PadWalker module). The debugger isn't terribly smart... hooked around the whole application, and thus outside the lexical scope in question. It's non-trivial to probe a lexical/local from outside their scope.

This appears true for my lexicals and locals. Try: 

my $foo = 10;
$bar = 10;

sub somelocals {
   my $foo = 42;
   local $bar = 42;
   # "x $foo", "x $bar" are 10 here
}
somelocals();

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Update:

This seems version dependent - my results and yours are consistent with v5.8.0. On v5.8.6, I see the opposite behaviour with x. (ie. lexicals are exposed as expected.)

re-Update:

Ignore. My testing was flawed.

In reply to Re: confused about local $/ in perl debugger by fishbot_v2
in thread confused about local $/ in perl debugger by lupey

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