use Perl

# Before venturing further into these twisty passages, it is
# wise to read the perldebguts man page or risk the ire of dragons.

# This would probably be better done with "use vars", but that wasn't around
# when this code was originally written. (Neither was "use strict".) And on
# the principle of not fiddling with something that was working, this was
# left alone.

# This was an attempt to clear out the previous values of various
# trapped errors. Apparently it didn't help. XXX More info needed!

@RememberOnROptions = qw(DollarCaretP OnlyAssertions);

# Just exactly what part of the word "CORE::" don't you understand?

# Here begin the unreadable code.  It needs fixing.

# XXX This looks like a bug to me.
# Why copy to @ARGS and then futz with @args?

# No signal is active.
$signal = 0;

# Hey, show's over. The debugged program finished
# executing already.

# local *dbline = *dbline; # XXX Would this work?!

# If the pattern isn't null ...
if ( $inpat ne "" ) {

# Can't run shell commands with Unicode in the debugger, hmm.
$cmd =~ /^$sh$sh\s*([\x00-\xff]*)/ && do {

# The following code may be executed now:
# BEGIN {warn 4}

# Expand @stack.
$#stack = $stack_depth;
# Save current single-step setting.
$stack[-1] = $single;

# Swing and a miss. Bad syntax.

# Nuke whatever's there.

# De-Perl4-ify the name - ' separators to ::.
$subname =~ s/\'/::/g;

# Line didn't make sense.

# Clever test. If you're a mathematician, it's obvious why this
# test works. If not:

# XXX Okay, what do $frame and $doret do, again?

# XXX It behooves an OS/2 expert to write the necessary documentation for this!

# is it really less, pretending to be more?

# Drop dead.

# I just *know* there are men without -M

# XXX This may be an extraneous variable.

# I may not be able to resurrect you, but here goes ...

# XXX I have no idea what this is doing. Yet.

# Did we find something that makes sense?

# Do not trace this 1; below!

Funny, eh?