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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote:

[talking about dynamically intering the debugger]
>
> Can anyone see a sane way to do it?
> 
> Better still, can anyone see a viable way to do it on perl5?

Python does this. There's basically a hook after every
statement, and you can put whatever you want in there.
I have no idea how it works internally, but from your
code you just put this in your code:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

and it stops right there and you're in the debugger.

Sincerely,
 
Michal J Wallace
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