Hate the Perl debugger? Want it to do more? I do. For example, I hate it when I see this:

DB<1> x $before 0 HASH(0x100e37fd8) 'foo' => ARRAY(0x100c5f1d8) 0 1 1 2 2 4 'guess' => CODE(0x100dc0d78) -> &main::__ANON__[run.pl:13] in run.pl:10-13 'this' => 'that' 'uno' => HASH(0x100db9000) 'this' => 'that' 'what?' => HASH(0x10088dfc0) 'this' => 'them'

So I've extended it to allow you to type xx $var :

DB<2> xx $after { foo => [ 1, 2, 4 ], guess => sub { my $x = shift @_; return $x + 1; }, this => "that", uno => { this => "that", "what?" => { this => "them" } } }

That's the same data structure, but it's much easier to read.

It's build on top of Marcel Grünauer's DB::Pluggable, but I can't release it yet because we've agreed that some of my work should be pushed back into the pluggable layer. Later, I'll make it more extensible, including changing serialisation options.