From: Jim Cromie Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:48:38 +0000 (-0400) Subject: patch against perldebug.pod X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a991b806546fbc2a03a9dd5fe2b122e0230c793a;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git patch against perldebug.pod Message-ID: <3D3567A6.5070404@divsol.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17592 --- diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index b63bc4a..dafa572 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ where STDOUT may be redirected to. =item x [maxdepth] expr -Evaluates its expression in list context and dumps out the result -in a pretty-printed fashion. Nested data structures are printed out -recursively, unlike the real C function in Perl. +Evaluates its expression in list context and dumps out the result in a +pretty-printed fashion. Nested data structures are printed out +recursively, unlike the real C function in Perl. When dumping +hashes, you'll probably prefer 'x \%h' rather than 'x %h'. See L if you'd like to do this yourself. The output format is governed by multiple options described under