From 6b88b523f4f7e35ca685a838b751c1a70608948f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: drbrain Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:31:09 +0000 Subject: * 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/trunk@39365 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- doc/globals.rdoc | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') 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 $:. -- cgit v1.2.3