Pre-RFC: check if we're running under the debugger

Hi all,

For those of us who use the debugger heavily, it's useful to know if we're running under the debugger. Unfortunately, the debugger doesn't natively export a way to do that. I've hacked on the debugger numerous times and I see that people do things like checking $DB::{single} or $INC{'perl5db.pl'}.

It would be nice to be able to do something like:

    if ( $ENV{PERL_DEBUGGER_RUNNING} ) {
        ...
    }

(A better name or approach is welcome)

This is a small itch to scratch, but it also seems very easy to scratch.

Thoughts? Or have I missed some documented, dead-trivial way of getting this information?

Best,
Ovid
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• Pre-RFC: check if we're running under the debugger by Ovid via perl5-porters
• Re: Pre-RFC: check if we're running under the debugger by Leon Timmermans
• Re: Pre-RFC: check if we're running under the debugger by Ovid via perl5-porters
• Re: Pre-RFC: check if we're running under the debugger by Ricardo Signes
• Re: Pre-RFC: check if we're running under the debugger by Ovid via perl5-porters