[xdebug-dev] Adding -d Parameter to `eval` Command

The current description for XDebug’s eval command is (emphasis mine)

Evaluate a given string within the current execution context. A property element MAY be returned as a child element of the response, but the IDE MUST NOT expect one. The string being evaluated may be an expression or a code segment to be executed. Languages, such as Python, which have separate statements for these, will need to handle both appropriately.

There’s no real reason to have this restriction, and I think we should allow evaluation at any stack depth, defaulting to the current frame. I propose a new optional parameter `-d` to specify the stack depth, defaulting to 0.

Max Sherman
Received on Fri Aug 26 2016 - 19:18:02 BST