Re^2: confused about local $/ in perl debugger

Your reply further confuses me. When I run your script in the debugger, $foo and $bar inside the subroutine are 42. The address of $foo and $bar changes appropriately.

In my OP, notice that the address of $/ changes appropriately but the value does not.

I'm runnning Perl 5.8.6 on Cygwin if this makes a difference.

lupey

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Re^3: confused about local $/ in perl debugger by fishbot_v2 (Chaplain) on May 24, 2005 at 14:47 UTC
Yeah, and now I am confused too. I never should have offered debugger advice. I am seeing different results too. (on v5.8.0): `# inside - main::changeRS DB<1> x $/ 0 undef DB<2> x \$/ 0 SCALAR(0xfab54) -> ' '` [download] I am seeing that the value changes if I evaluate at that point, but if I 'x' the reference I see a new location, but the old value. Also, I can now no longer reproduce my lexical oddness from before. I think that my one trial silently fell out of the inner scope. Even my `local $bar` example is behaving as both `x \$bar` and `x $bar`. Loath as I am to say this, (especially with my track record in this thread) I think that this is a bug in the debugger. I am going to test with other special vars...	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: confused about local $/ in perl debugger
by fishbot_v2 (Chaplain) on May 24, 2005 at 14:47 UTC

# inside - main::changeRS
  DB<1> x $/
0  undef
  DB<2> x \$/
0  SCALAR(0xfab54)
   -> '
'
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I am seeing that the value changes if I evaluate at that point, but if I 'x' the reference I see a new location, but the old value.

Also, I can now no longer reproduce my lexical oddness from before. I think that my one trial silently fell out of the inner scope. Even my local $bar example is behaving as both x \$bar and x $bar.

Loath as I am to say this, (especially with my track record in this thread) I think that this is a bug in the debugger. I am going to test with other special vars...

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