Hello monks, I have experienced the phenomenon, that scripts with the latest Getopt::Long::Descriptive succeed in the debugger, but fail without. Can anyone explain why this happens or how to debug/fix these kind of issues? 
> perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int
(with 13 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

# try the Getopt::Long::Descriptive Synopsis
> perl synopsis.pl --help
Reference found where even-sized list expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_
+perl/5.10/Getopt/Long/Descriptive.pm line 442.
Use of uninitialized value $arg{"name"} in hash element at /usr/lib/pe
+rl5/site_perl/5.10/Getopt/Long/Descriptive.pm line 477.
Use of uninitialized value in anonymous hash ({}) at /usr/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.10/Getopt/Long/Descriptive.pm line 486.
Use of uninitialized value $arg{"name"} in hash element at /usr/lib/pe
+rl5/site_perl/5.10/Getopt/Long/Descriptive.pm line 503.
Reference found where even-sized list expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_
+perl/5.10/

# works
> env PERLDB_OPTS="NonStop=1" perl -d synopsis.pl --help
my-program [-psv] [long options...] <some-arg>
        -s --server     the server to connect to
        -p --port       the port to connect to

        -v --verbose    print extra stuff
        --help          print usage message and exit

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SOLVED A fresh reinstall of Params::Validate solved the issue.
print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});

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