Why cant I break here in Perl Debugger?

[Sara]

I often want to break on the first line of a block, such as


21 while ($itsANiceDay)
22 {print "lets play outdoors\n";
23 $itsANiceDay = getWeatherReport();
24 }


I can set a breakpoint on like 21 or 23, but why not 22? It looks like
a legitimate place to break?

G

(sorry about posting this in the middle of another thread it was accidental.

 

[Anno Siegel]

I often want to break on the first line of a block, such as


21 while ($itsANiceDay)
22 {print "lets play outdoors\n";
23 $itsANiceDay = getWeatherReport();
24 }


I can set a breakpoint on like 21 or 23, but why not 22? It looks like
a legitimate place to break?

G

(sorry about posting this in the middle of another thread it was accidental.

See my answer there.

Anno

 

[Bill Smith]

I often want to break on the first line of a block, such as


21 while ($itsANiceDay)
22 {print "lets play outdoors\n";
23 $itsANiceDay = getWeatherReport();
24 }


I can set a breakpoint on like 21 or 23, but why not 22? It looks like
a legitimate place to break.

I have found the debugger to much more reliable on code that conforms to
all the conventions (and examples) in perldoc perlstyle. Your example
breaks as expected after it is rearranged into the following style:

21 while ($itsANiceDay){
22 print "lets play outdoors\n";
23 $itsANiceDay = getWeatherReport();
24 }

I do not know if this is a general rule, but I have always been able to
work around similar problems this way.

Bill