Hello fellow Monks,

I just wondered if it is possible to have trace like macros in a Perl script. By now I do this: 
use constant DEBUG => 1;

print "Test something" if (DEBUG);

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But I would rather use something like: 
use constant DEBUG => 1;

DEBUG("Test something");

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but without the overhead of a function call. I already looked at some modules at CPAN (like Trace), but they allways seem to call functions even if DEBUG = 0 and in a large Perl script it gives me to much overhead (especially when using the DB Module).
So now I ask you, it is possible to do the second variant without calling a sub if DEBUG = 0 ?

Andre

In reply to Debug Macro by Outaspace

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