Even with code where I disagree with both the style and the purpose (nicely done! :), I can still enjoy trying to figure out what is going on.

I keep forgetting to look into whether alternative methods of listing variables list the values as well, but I do know that when I used Xref at the command line, it gave me a laundry list of stuff that I didn't care about. There's no post-processing necessary for VarStructor to give you the user defined variables and values, and it's faster, easier to use, and more flexible than Xref.

I don't know how anyone could say that the addition of a reset feature that's more flexible and safer than Perl's not-yet-deprecated reset function is a bad addition, but you can't deny that listing variables and their values is useful.

The fact that your module exhibits exactly those problems that it tries to fix / support is what has made many of the exchanges here so painful.

My subroutine doesn't try to fix anything. It succeeds in being a tool to be used the way any module or Perl function is used. I'm using it because it's the best way to do what I have to do, and I won't settle for second-best just because others prefer it.

In reply to Re: Re^5: VarStructor 1.0 by Wassercrats
in thread VarStructor 1.0 by Wassercrats

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