On Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 08:05:16 Clint Burfoot wrote:
> Hi Shlomi,
>
> I'm writing to you in your capacity as maintainer of the "Error" CPAN
> module. I'm the maintainer of the Debian package for the module.
>
> I've had a bug report "unable to debug code wrapped by try statement"
> lodged against the package. Full details of the report are at the link
> below.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510416
>
> My intuition is that this is a design limitation, not a bug. May I have
> your comment?
Yes it, is. Using this program:
----SNIP----
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Error qw(:try);
try {
my $x = 5;
my $y = 6;
print "$x*$y == " , $x*$y, "\n";
$x += $y;
$y++;
}
except {
my $E = shift;
print "Got $E\n";
};
----SNIP----
I can debug it by putting a break on the line number of "my $x = 5;" (using "b
9") and it seems to work fine. Otherwise, I should note that we no longer
recommend people to use Error.pm, due to the black magical nature of its
syntactic sugar.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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