in reply to Debugging objects

Annomonk gave you a good hint for this case, but for the general case of inspecting objects ...

Most objects in Perl are blessed hash references but not all.

Since any kind of reference can be blessed it depends on the implementation, if and how you can "see inside". (That's particularly difficult for inside/out objects.)

Good news, it's Perl, i.e. the implementation is open to be read.

Cheers Rolf
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