-d:*foo=bar,baz*
         runs the program under the control of a debugging, profiling, or
         tracing module installed as Devel::foo. E.g., -d:DProf executes the
         program using the Devel::DProf profiler. As with the -M flag,
         options may be passed to the Devel::foo package where they will be
         received and interpreted by the Devel::foo::import routine. The
         comma-separated list of options must follow a "=" character. See
         perldebug.

My problem is that the DB module does something as soon as it is included to organise registered debugging "clients". Unfortunately, this does not give me any time to actually register, as I have to include the code before I can subclass it (or at any rate, the register function must be defined so I can call it _to_ register).

I don't really fancy what seems to be the answer which is to doubly declare the DB package so I can step through the use of DB.pm itself in order to call register() before it inits the registered clients *ugh*.

Thanks for your suggestion, though.

   larryk                                          
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