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Agreed. Though it does take a fair amount of reading to understand the output I find. diotalevi put me on to Perl Guts Illustrated, which has been a great help as I always have a pile of scraps of paper next to me with sketches and tables scribbled all over them when I am programming. Despite the fact that I have no aptitude artistically, I seem to have a visually oriented brain.

However, I'm a little confused by what your example was illustrating? 

C:\test>perl -MDevel::Peek -we "$a=1.2;Dump($a);$b="$a";Dump($a)"
Name "main::b" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
SV = NV(0x1bc58c0) at 0x1bd2a50
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (NOK,pNOK)
  NV = 1.2
SV = NV(0x1bc58c0) at 0x1bd2a50
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (NOK,pNOK)
  NV = 1.2

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Examine what is said, not who speaks.
1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re^4: Confirming what we already knew (it's cached)
by hv (Prior) on Mar 05, 2003 at 21:39 UTC

    If you change the quotes, you need to be careful of the interior; try:

      perl -MDevel::Peek -we "$a=1.2;Dump($a);$b=qq{$a};Dump($a)"

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    Hugo
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      {blush}...........it normally gives some sort of an error when...{double blush}

      Examine what is said, not who speaks.
      1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
      2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
      3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
      Arthur C. Clarke.
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