On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:43:08PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: [ how should printed lists behave? ] > Please make the default behaviour 'debugging friendly' rather than > 'pretty' if that makes any sense at all. In other words, it'd be handy > if whatever got printed out included some unique ID for the scalar so, > when I'm sticking debugging print statements into code I can tell at a > glance whether [ 'one', 'two', 'three' ] and [ 'one', 'two', 'three' ] > are the same thing or simply two arrayrefs that *look* the same. How > about something like 'Array(<id>)[...]'? Verbose admittedly, but > useful.
Ideally, there could even be a per-list switch and a global switch that says "(don't) show unique ids when interpolating lists/arrays". By default, it gets set to "show", but it can be turned off if you want. --Dks
