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From: cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: select(FILEHANDLE) in debugger - bug or feature?
Keywords: select, debugger
Message-ID: <3148@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 90 21:39:50 GMT
Lines: 15

While debugging a script using the perl debugger, I noticed that
sometimes I could print variables (print $foo) and other times I
couldn't.  Further investigation showed that after issuing a
"select(FILEHANDLE)" in the script under debug, printing variables
failed.  I discovered that "print STDOUT $foo" works after the select.
Now, is this a bug or feature of the debugger that it doesn't notice
that default output file handle has changed?  I would argue that it's
a bug and it's a pain to have to include STDOUT in every print command.

This was observed on a Pyramid running perl 3.0 Patch level 28.

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