[Melbourne-pm] Data::Dumper enhancement

[David Warring]

Mathew,
I notice that Data::Dumper already has a Dumpp function that prints to
STDOUT:

    use Data::Dumper;
    Data::Dumper::Dumpp([{apples => 10, oranges => 20}]);

Would it suffice to make this exportable?
- David

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Mathew Robertson <
mathew.blair.robertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi PM,
>
> For years I have used Data::Dumper to help me debug my code, usually with
> the syntax:
>
>   print Dumper(blah);
>
> It occurred to me that I could save some keystrokes... so went looking at
> Dumper.pm and found that 'wantarray' is being used to determine the calling
> context for list vs. scalar. But it isn't being used to detect void
> context...
>
> Would saving 6 keystrokes would be a useful enhancement?
>
> cheers,
> Mathew Robertson
>
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