I'm probably showing my age when I write this (I was born in the late 50's), but the Perl debugger is fine for me -- but then, I've used a variety of debug monitors and IDEs in my career, this one just has a variety of different commands for the same things that I want to do.

I use the debugger for small things I want to try out, and occasionally for tracking down a more complex problem. That's my way of saying it might be faster (with regard to your two points about line continuations and readline support suggest that) just to write a one-time script and step through it in the debugger.

As far as learning you have to type print $x or x $x, I'm guessing you haven't spent that much time useing the debugger. If you had, you'd know how to

Once you've got those basics down, you can get into more esoteric things, such as running until a variable is equal to a specific value, clearing breakpoints (B, I think) and so forth.

If you're keen to improve the Perl debugger, remember, this is open source -- feel free to jump in and help out.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to Re: I like Python's interactive shell a lot better than Perl's debugger. What are my alternatives? by talexb
in thread I like Python's interactive shell a lot better than Perl's debugger. What are my alternatives? by Anonymous Monk

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