Devel-Comments version 1.1.3 "I get the feeling that the computer just skips over all the comments." -- a grad student Devel::Comments is a source filter for your Perl code, intended to be used only during development. Specially-formatted 'smart' comments are replaced by executable code to dump variables to screen or to file, display loop progress bars, or enforce conditions. These smart comments can all be disabled at once by commenting out the 'use Devel::Comments' line, whereupon they return to being simple, dumb comments. Your debugging code can remain in place, guaranteed harmless, ready for the next development cycle. Devel::Comments is a fork of Smart::Comments; the intention is to add new features without breaking backward compatibility. Version 1.1.2 implements the 'any filehandle' feature, allowing smart output to go to any filehandle opened for writing. You may instead pass in a filename, which DC will open for you. Future plans include extended calling syntax, numerical level enabling, improved progress bars, dump method callback, and execution of arbitrary code. Bugs raised against Smart::Comments 1.0.4 will be fixed in DC. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install DEPENDENCIES # 'requires' perl 5.8.0 version 0.77 Text::Balanced 2.0 Data::Dumper Filter::Simple 0.80 List::Util # 'build_requires'; only for 'Build test' Test::More # 'recommends'; only for full test suite perl 5.10.1 Test::More 0.94 Test::Deep Try::Tiny IO::Capture::Stdout::Extended IO::Capture::Stderr::Extended IO::Capture::Sayfix IO::Capture::Tellfix COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2010 Xiong Changnian This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.