Re: [PATCH] Data::Dumper.pm

[James Duncan <james@ebookers.com>]

Larry Wall wrote:
>
> A better approach might be to make Data::Dumper instruct Perl to
> save a copy of the original code structure.
> 

Maybe I'm missing something huge here, but isn't B::Deparse is just
about the closest thing we have to this (reconstructing the source from
what is left of the source after compile -- the optree).

Perhaps being able to do something funky with inline opcodes could do a
better job? ie:

	use Inline;
	sub test {
	   inline q(
		...
           );
	}

Then instead of having to reconstruct the source, you could simply
inline the opcodes, and be able to deconstruct/reconstruct an anonymous
sub that way.

Of course that might open a can of worms with people mad enough to
consider using the opcodes instead of pretty perl in the first place...

Regards,
James.

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References to:

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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