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From: Tom Christiansen [mailto:tchrist@chthon.perl.com]
> >Here is a patch that makes "TTY" and "noTTY" booleans.
>
> Ah, but the former is not. :-( It's string-valued:
>
> `TTY' The TTY to use for debugging I/O.
>
> but its negator is Boolean:
>
> `noTTY' If set, goes in `NonStop' mode,
> and would not connect to a TTY.
>
> Wacky, eh? You'd think one should set TTY to '' to
> achieve noTTY.
Ouch!
*** perl5db.pl.orig Fri Mar 17 11:06:37 2000
--- perl5db.pl Fri Mar 17 21:04:35 2000
***************
*** 1828,1834 ****
# 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) {
--- 1828,1834 ----
# 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 TTY
};
while (length) {