2008/11/28 via RT John Siracusa <perlbug-followup@perl.org>: > > It seems like another workaround could be to change the default dieLevel > back to 0 instead of 1. > > BTW, the "perldoc perldebug" documentation seems to imply that the default > value of dieLevel is still 0: > > "By default, the debugger leaves your exceptions and warnings alone, > because altering them can break correctly running programs." > > so apparently that patch in 2001 that brian refers to only updated the > code, but not the docs. Here's a pointer to the patch : http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/11120 and the original mail from Ilya, which is not so helpful: http://markmail.org/message/c6dwk4areelar37p?q=debugger+date:20010703&page=1 I don't know what defaults are preferable for dielevel and warnlevel in the debugger. I don't use it enough.Thread Previous