Ok this goes somehow in the direction of code generation like Smart::Comments with the difference that you can still safely use it in production code.

But then I would rather prefer to insert an eval-macro solution giving me the opportunity to change details dynamically at central place:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
 
my @bla=(0..9);
 
sub dmp_macro {
  my $var=shift;
  (my $var2=$var) =~ tr/@%$//d;
  use Data::Dumper;
  return "print Data::Dumper->Dump([\\$var],['\*$var2'])"
}
 
print dmp_macro('@bla'),"\n"x3;
 
eval (dmp_macro qw/@bla/);

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output: 

print Data::Dumper->Dump([\@bla],['*bla'])
 
 
@bla = (
         0,
         1,
         2,
         3,
         4,
         5,
         6,
         7,
         8,
         9
       );

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(OK I admit, it's not only lisp-ish, it's even uglier ;-)

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^2: Dumping variables but DRY and simple by LanX
in thread Dumping variables but DRY and simple by LanX

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