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From: Tom Christiansen [mailto:tchrist@chthon.perl.com]
> >Test 2 uses this to silence the debugger
>
> > $ENV{'PERLDB_OPTS'} = 'noTTY' ;
>
> >This feature of the debugger seems to be broken in 5.6.0-RC2.
>
...
>
> Back to your option ssue. The fix is to designate "noTTY" a boolean.
> But this just dodges the real bug, which was that it was a design
> flaw that some variables are 0 or 1, others are null or nonnull,
> and at least one--this case in particular--you've got a "foo" and
> a "nofoo" option. No wonder it doesn't make sense. So you've
> you've got three different conventions, and yet one "default" for
> setting, a default that displays no smarts at all about what it's
> defaulting. The whole option thing is one massive design nightmare,
> something from another dimension.
Here is a patch that makes "TTY" and "noTTY" booleans.
*** perl5db.pl.orig Fri Mar 17 11:06:37 2000
--- perl5db.pl Fri Mar 17 11:08:26 2000
***************
*** 1828,1835 ****
# too dangerous to let intuitive usage overwrite important things
# defaultion should never be the default
my %opt_needs_val = map { ( $_ => 1 ) } qw{
! arrayDepth hashDepth LineInfo maxTraceLen noTTY ornaments
! pager quote ReadLine recallCommand RemotePort ShellBang TTY
};
while (length) {
my $val_defaulted;
--- 1828,1835 ----
# too dangerous to let intuitive usage overwrite important things
# defaultion should never be the default
my %opt_needs_val = map { ( $_ => 1 ) } qw{
! arrayDepth hashDepth LineInfo maxTraceLen ornaments
! pager quote ReadLine recallCommand RemotePort ShellBang
};
while (length) {
my $val_defaulted;
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