in reply to Re: Yet Another Perl Object Model (Inside Out Objects)
in thread Yet Another Perl Object Model (Inside Out Objects)
Also, for more serious uses, persistancy is a not uncommon requirement and serialization can be the simplest way to achieve it. Config files are a simple (and sometime abused) example but better to look at something like MLDBM.
And in my case, writing and breaking and fixing a number of different serialization modules (aka dumpers) has been both a hobby and an heavy duty course on perl esoterica. Some people do regexes or crazy ties, me I do dumpers. I hope to have a super duper improved version of Data::BFDump ready after the holidays. It should make dumping inside out objects a _lot_ easier.
:-)
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