My biggest gripe with Data::Dumper is that is keeps appending to a big string in memory when 90% of the time you are just going to write that string to a file. Someone needs to patch Data::Dumper so that you can request that it dump directly to a file handle (that and it needs to be more flexible in what it puts on the left-hand side of the equals sign).

Oh, and it should have an option to not dump the blessedness.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")