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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/globals.rdoc')
| -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 $:. |