Re: [ID 20000127.003] File-scope 'my' array is non-empty, but debugger

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

Rich Miller writes:
>     my @res = ("A\n");
>     print @res;
> 
> Running this with "perl -w" or "perl -w -d" produces the expected output
> (a line containing the single letter 'A').  But in the perl debugger,
> the command
> 	x @res
> given after the first line executes, but before the second start,
> erroneously reports
>     empty array

More datapoints:

  DB<1> print @res

  DB<2> eval 'print @res'
A

Something fishy...  eval '...' does not see it, but eval q(eval '...') can
see it...

Ilya

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Follow-Ups from:

Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>

References to:

Rich Miller <rmiller@rmiller1.idx.com>

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