Re: I never use the debugger.

[5mi11er]

I've used the debugger less and less as time goes by, but, I personally find it a great tool to use when I'm attempting to get a semi-hairy, or worse, incantation just right, I'll open a window and run a debugger to play with it, and leave my vim editor in the other window, and copy and paste the incantation when I'm done.

However, the debugger will always be an important part of my toolset. I find that remembering exactly how to call/use some of the perl built in's is lost on me; I'm always looking things up in the blue camel book. And sometimes, when I think I remember how to do it, I'll put it in wrongly, and only when stepping through the debugger does it become obvious that I'd messed it up.

Yeah, print statements would work too, but I hate muddying up my code with those otherwise useless debugging print statements. Just chalk it up to personal preferences and all that.

-Scott