Having some experience with the innerds of Data::Dumper I think I can state catagorically that the standard module would never do that at all. So either someone has hacked it (and indication would be that if you turn on Useqq if the results are different) or somekind of post processing happening that you are not aware of. To be honest though I think that Data::Dumper being hacked is extremely unlikely. The standard version comes in a PP and XS implementation and I think a hacker would have to do a lot of work to break it in this way without breaking it totally. My guess is that something else has been modified or hacked, and more likely the former. If ti was the dumper id love for you to post the hacked version.

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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}