Re: [PLUG] Re: Perl interpreter hangs

[ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com>]

Kevin Falcone wrote:

> >>>>> "en" == ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com> writes:
>
>   en> Python has a prompt, Scheme has a prompt, I assumed Perl had a
>   en> prompt. Thank you for being persistent with me.  I understand
>   en> now.
>
> Ah, I didn't realize what you meant by a prompt.
>
> Perl is more like awk or sed than python or scheme in that it expects
> you to use it as a filter, and you can drop it in somewhere and it
> will readily read from stdin and spew to stdout.
>
> As Kyle mentioned, you can check out the perl debugger (perl -d)
>
> Read perldebug with perldoc perldebug, and there is a new man page in
> the development sources called perldebtut.  I have HTMLized this and
> put it here as it makes good reading for a first time introduction to
> the debugger, but is unavailable without access to the bleeding edge
> of Perl development.
>
> <http://jibsheet.com/perldebtut.html>
> <http://jibsheet.com/perldebtut.pod>
>
> -kevin
>
> --
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> Thom Digby
>
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Thanks for the links.

    -- Ed



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