Re: Stringification of references and objects.

[Dan Sugalski]

At 6:36 PM -0500 12/5/02, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:

By default, references should not stringify to anything "pretty", they
should stringifiy to something useful for debugging.  Heck, even perl5
style should be fine.  Not only is this handy, but also prevents
problems with circular referencing data structures, huge data
structures, etc.  However, all built-in types should have a .repr()
method, which should provide primitive Data::Dumper-ish output

If an aggregate and a reference to an aggregate are going to behave the same, which is what Larry's indicated in the past, then stringifying a reference should be the same as stringifying its referent.
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Dan

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