On 10/19/05, Dan Boger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:09:09PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: [...] > > beyond this i would actually look at the code which is barfing about > > an array ref and see what it is getting and where that data comes from > > (hopefully your code/data). i have had to do this a few times with > > various cpan modules to really understand what they want (and on a few > > occassions to debug them) vs what the docs claim :-/. > > I've done that, and everything looks kosher... I've even ran it through > the debugger to see exactly what happens... But when I run it in the > debugger, everything works.
And that is one reason that I like avoiding the debugger. Because when it works, I could have generally found the answer in other ways. And when it fails, I NEED to be able to do that. I'm not saying that everyone else should likewise avoid the debugger. There are good reasons to use it and good reasons not to. For an overview of some of them, both ways, see: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=48495 Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
