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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--doc/globals.rdoc8
-rw-r--r--version.h2
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c0e500a63..b262d6d737 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sat Mar 9 21:46:41 2013 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
+
+ * doc/globals.rdoc: Document what setting $DEBUG does.
+
+ * doc/globals.rdoc: Added pointer to $-d for full documentation.
+
Sat Mar 9 21:45:38 2013 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
* doc/globals.rdoc: Document what setting $VERBOSE does. [Bug #7899]
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 $:.
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 2cdbaae58c..bd1e4e16b2 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#define RUBY_VERSION "2.0.0"
#define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2013-03-09"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 26
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 27
#define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2013
#define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 3