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author | nagachika <nagachika@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2013-03-09 12:47:17 +0000 |
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committer | nagachika <nagachika@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2013-03-09 12:47:17 +0000 |
commit | 10fb5c3a14a77dfde26f37c4eb2ecc074ce9ef72 (patch) | |
tree | e273cf8074e348a476b8beeb0651609bcbc89f1f /doc | |
parent | 813615b7bf3646b93ede86e5437e11ae3b473701 (diff) |
merge revision(s) 39365:
* doc/globals.rdoc: Document what setting $DEBUG does.
* doc/globals.rdoc: Added pointer to $-d for full documentation.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_2_0_0@39657 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/globals.rdoc | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/globals.rdoc b/doc/globals.rdoc index f4cfd35ef6..060764f54e 100644 --- a/doc/globals.rdoc +++ b/doc/globals.rdoc @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ $$:: The process number of the Ruby running this script. $?:: The status of the last executed child process. $::: Load path for scripts and binary modules by load or require. $":: The array contains the module names loaded by require. -$DEBUG:: The status of the -d switch. +$DEBUG:: The debug flag, which is set by the -d switch. Enabling debug + output prints each exception raised to $stderr (but not its + backtrace). Setting this to a true value enables debug output as + if -d were given on the command line. Setting this to a false + value disables debug output. $FILENAME:: Current input file from $<. Same as $<.filename. $LOAD_PATH:: The alias to the $:. $stderr:: The current standard error output. @@ -37,7 +41,7 @@ $VERBOSE:: The verbose flag, which is set by the -w or -v switch. Setting including from Kernel#warn. $-0:: The alias to $/. $-a:: True if option -a is set. Read-only variable. -$-d:: The alias to $DEBUG. +$-d:: The alias of $DEBUG. See $DEBUG above for further discusison. $-F:: The alias to $;. $-i:: In in-place-edit mode, this variable holds the extension, otherwise nil. $-I:: The alias to $:. |