There has been a lot of discussion about how the debugger has been broken in recent releases by poorly thought out additions and modification to the interface. One of the best comments came from Dominus

But it seems to me that this problem really stems from the fact that the internals of the debugger are so crabbed. If they were more rational and open, with more hooks, then it would be easier to extend or alter the command set on a per-user basis. As it is, we get a new, ill-thought-out patch to perl5db.pl every time some pinhead wants another extension.

As for a remedy, I dont know, suffice it say that with the number of p5p people getting annoyed about it recently id say theres a good chance somebody will get the tuits to sort it out.

--- demerphq
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