Re: .perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Mynott
The closest to Perl 5 Data::Dumper is Perl6 Data::Dump. Note also .perl will hang on many data structures. I find using YML dump also useful. S On 11 August 2015 at 14:09, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any way to change the output format of the .perl method without a

Re: .perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

2015-08-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote: The closest to Perl 5 Data::Dumper is Perl6 Data::Dump. Note also .perl will hang on many data structures. I find using YML dump also useful. Is that YAML dump? -Tom

Re: .perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

2015-08-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 August 2015 at 11:36, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: The closest to Perl 5 Data::Dumper is Perl6 Data::Dump. Note also .perl

.perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

2015-08-11 Thread Tom Browder
I don't see any way to change the output format of the .perl method without a home-grown filter of some kind. Providing some way to duplicate the output of Data::Dumper would be handy for someone converting Perl 5 to Perl 6. Maybe we need a Perl 6 version of Data::Dumper. Best, -Tom