I have been testing the debugging facilities provided by EPIC in Eclipse. The debugger appears to have difficulty with references. The dialog box 'Error Parsing Debugger Variables' is shown as soon as a reference is encountered. the code below illustrates the point. Has anyone resolved this issue or found a work-around? 

dummy();
sub dummy
{
my @array = qw (red green blue);
my %hash = qw (flintstone fred rubble barney);
#$hash{"boulder"}=["bambam", "bubbles"];
my $count = 0;
my $ref = \@array;
print Dumper(\@array);
}

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I installed the latest version of the Eclipse SDK and used the plugin update feature to install EPIC. Other than that, I am running ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 on Windows XP.

In reply to debugging data structures with Eclipse by inman

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