On 9/26/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > demerphq wrote: > > On 12/5/06, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Julian Mehnle wrote: > >> > >>> Is it likely that this occurs with CPANTS in the first place? > >>> Unfortuna- > >>> tely, CPANTS doesn't tell the Data::Dumper version it is using... :-( > >> I looked at the three failure reports you referenced, and seeing as 2 > >> of them come from the same person, perhaps we could ask imacat what > >> version is installed? I just used 'svn annotate' to go *way* back in > >> the sources for M::B and I confirmed that we've been using "Terse" > >> dumping since this feature was introduced. > >> > >> Another idea I just had by looking at the Data::Dumper docs was that > >> maybe some funny refs are in the structure it's trying to write? It > >> says "$VARn names will be avoided where possible", and maybe in this > >> case it doesn't think it's possible. So we'd probably also need to > >> see the build_params file to diagnose that. > > > > Im shocked that anyone is using Terse in production code. It is > > completely unsafe and intended ONLY for debugging purposes. In fact id > > say that using Data::Dumper without Purity(1) as a serialization > > mechanism in production code is simply insane. > > > > All you need is a single ref in two positions in a data structure to > > make an unevalable dump without Purity(1). With Terse it will just be > > worse. > > If that's the case, perhaps the docs for Terse could use stronger language. > Right now it's a little obtuse. > > · $Data::Dumper::Terse or $OBJ−>Terse([NEWVAL]) > > When set, Data::Dumper will emit single, non‐self‐referential > values as atoms/terms rather than statements. This means that the > $VARn names will be avoided where possible, but be advised that > such output may not always be parseable by "eval". > > Something like B<don't use this to serialize data in production!>
I guess. To me thats obvious given the <but be advised that such output may not always be parseable by "eval"> Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
