Well, right. But I'm talking about printing out a stack trace, ala Carp
or Devel::StackTrace. It prints out subroutine arguments, which may
include objects. If the objects are stringify to something like
'2004-01-02 11:12:13' then that could be kind of confusing if you're
expecting 'DateTime=HASH{0xDADADA}', right?
Right. Which is why Devel::StackTrace and Carp *ought* to be utilizing overload::StrVal calls under those circumstances. From the overload POD:
overload::StrVal(arg)
Gives string value of "arg" as in absence of stringify
overloading.Hence, "buggy" behavior from those digging tools. Perhaps we (or I) should motivate and provide patches to those two projects.
Matt
