On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:02:57PM -0600, John Williams wrote: : 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.
Actually, I've settled on .perl for now, on the assumption there could also be a .python, a .ruby, a .cobol, a .intercal, etc. Larry
