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From:
Zefram
Date:
January 10, 2017 23:51
Subject:
Re: Deprecation plans
Message ID:
20170110235121.GB6507@fysh.org
Ricardo Signes wrote:
>What about CORE::dump()?  I never use it, but I know some folks use it as a
>breakpoint in gdb or something?

It has no particular value there.  If it's desired to have a breakpoint
that's explicitly invokable from Perl code, one can use the actual
debugger breakpoint facility to break on pp_study or some other
rarely-called op.

-zefram

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