At 01:52 PM 8/3/01 -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:40:33PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> > How odd. All I can suggest is that you get the latest one. Vide:
>
>What I meant by it not dumping globs is that the glob data structure cannot
>be recovered by eval'ing the code, as your example shows.
Er, the original question I was responding to was
"is there and easy way to dump ALL data structures established by the
currently-running Perl script?"
which didn't appear to be concerned with recovering globs. I took it to
mean user-created data structures rather than perl-created structures, this
being a beginners' list. But yes, you're right. I wonder why this is not
mentioned in the BUGS section of Data::Dumper.
>I thought perhaps you were suggesting Dumper \%:: as an example for dumping
>all of the data structures used by Perl. Upon deeper inspection I'm
>beginning to think perhaps you were suggesting it just as a way for him to
>discover the symbol table.
Bingo. But the question was a bit odd to begin with, so the answer is
likely to be odd too.
>Matthew:
>Either way you'll have to iterate over %:: and manually go through each
>glob's slots, as well as recurse into namespaces (assuming you wanted to
>grab -everything-). Why is it you need to do this?
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