On 2/21/04 4:33 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, John Siracusa wrote: >> Speaking of difficult debugging and DT, every time I feed something to >> Data::Dumper that contains a DT object (or several) I cringe at the giant >> output. I don't suppose there's any way to avoid that... > > Nothing springs to mind, other than adding hooks to Data::Dumper ala > Storable. But that would somewhat defeat the purpose of Data::Dumper, > wouldn't it?
For eval-ing purposes, sure. But if you're using it for debugging to "look inside" objects and whatnot, you don't need to see all that stuff. Yeah, Storable-like hooks would be nice. Maybe Perl 5.10's Data::Dumper will support them :) -John
