On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > To get a Perlish representation of any data value, use the C<.repr> > method. This will put quotes around strings, square brackets around > list values, curlies around hash values, etc., such that standard > Perl could reparse the result. XXX .repr is what Python calls it, I think. > Is there a better name?
Is .dump taken? It reminds me of Data::Dumper.
