> My best guess is an array of blessed hashes

Well yes, an array of 3 different widget objects of class Gtk2::Window.

Data::Dumper is trying to represent the input as a string, which can be reversed by evaling it again. (quote: "stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval" )

Since the name of an object constructor is not fixed in Perl("->new" is only a convention) using bless is the most accurate way to do it.

edit

I just checked there is indeed a new constructor for Gtk2::Window :

http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/Window.html#widget_Gtk2_Window_n

So it might be possible to represent the same information with

$VAR1 = [ Gtk2::Window->new(), Gtk2::Window->new(), Gtk2::Window->new() ]

but to be sure me as a human would need to look up the implementation. Data::Dumper as a piece of code can't do this.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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update

PS: Not sure what you meant with DSC, in perldsc this stands for Data Structure Cookbook..

In reply to Re: what type of datastructure is this by LanX
in thread what type of dsc is this by navalned

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