Hi

It's somehow a p!ta (or more diplomatic "not a pleasure") to dump variables together with their names.

Data::Dumper has a very cumbersome way to do it, where the variables have to be repeated, once as reference and then as string holding the name.

Data::Dump has no mechanism at all for names and expects me to handle the printing of the name.

Before I reinvent the wheel¹, is their already a good way to simply say

dmp \@a;
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and to automatically get something like

\@a     => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
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When offering answers please keep in mind that different symbols can hold the same references or globs.

Reverse engineering the name is not trivial.

¹) well I already invented using B::Deparse, but IIRC when I asked some years ago and there was no clean way ...

updated

it helps to think about how such a module should be named! :)

see

Data::Dumper::Simple (uses source filter)

Data::Dumper::Names (depends on PadWalker and has limitations)

and maybe also Smart::Comments should be mentioned (another sourcefilter)

anything else?

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