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

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

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 06:31:01PM -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 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...
> 

This is probably the problem:

[...]/lib/perl5/5.00503> grep \@res perl5db.pl
    my @res;
        @res = eval "$usercontext $evalarg;\n"; # '\n' for nice recursive
    debug
        dumpit($OUT, \@res);
    @res;


Ronald

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