Most Perl programmers know about the Perl debugger--the nifty little
built-in utility that you can use to fully debug any programs that you
write. Inside the interactive debugger environment, you're prompted for
commands that let you examine your source code, set breakpoints, dump
out function call stacks, change values of variables, and much more.
It's so convenient that some programmers run it just to test out Perl
constructs as they create a program. But although it's on their radar,
not many Perl programmers take the time to master the debugger. That's
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its commands. Written by a core member of the Perl debugger development
team, it's an ideal quick reference to debugger commands, as well as a
detailed tutorial on how to get started. The Perl Debugger Pocket
Reference provides complete coverage in a conveniently small package.
Maybe you write code so clean you never have to look at it twice. Or
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