On 8/14/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) wrote:
>To get a Perlish representation of any data value, use the C<.repr>
>method. This will put quotes around strings, square brackets around
>list values, curlies around hash values, etc., such that standard
>Perl could reparse the result. XXX .repr is what Python calls it, I think.
>Is there a better name?
Hm, sounds like kind of a reverse-eval.
".lave", when you want a nice, clean representation of your values!
- David "hey, I could've suggested .deval...." Green
