13.2 Diagnostic Output

If you need send yourself some debugging output, you can use #silent to output it to standard error:

#silent $sys.stderr.write("Incorrigible var is '$incorrigible'.\n")
#silent $sys.stderr.write("Is 'unknown' in the searchList? " +
    $getVar("unknown", "No.") + "\n" )

(Tip contributed by Greg Czajkowski.)