Er ... what I said was:

• As a bonus, it will probably be more compact than Storable (as long as you set $Data::Dumper::Indent to 0).

I didn't mention correctness, I mentioned compactness -- with $Indent set, you get an extremely compressed string that will more often than not be smaller than Storable's binary encoding of the same data.

The drawback is of course that Storable will always be faster.

-dlc