Re: stringification of objects, subroutine refs

2002-05-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:10 AM -0400 5/15/02, Aaron Sherman wrote: >On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 00:39, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> At 8:58 PM -0700 5/10/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >I was wondering how perl6 would stringify (as in Data::Dumper): >> >> That's not stringification. It's serialization, which is a different

Re: stringification of objects, subroutine refs

2002-05-15 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 00:39, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 8:58 PM -0700 5/10/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I was wondering how perl6 would stringify (as in Data::Dumper): > > That's not stringification. It's serialization, which is a different > thing entirely. > > What you'll potentially get is

Re: stringification of objects, subroutine refs

2002-05-11 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
"Brent Dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # I was wondering how perl6 would stringify (as in Data::Dumper): > > As Dan said, that's serialization. I don't know if Perl will support > that built-in. But if it does... > > # 1) objects with 'my' and 'our' variables > >

RE: stringification of objects, subroutine refs

2002-05-11 Thread Brent Dax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: # I was wondering how perl6 would stringify (as in Data::Dumper): As Dan said, that's serialization. I don't know if Perl will support that built-in. But if it does... # 1) objects with 'my' and 'our' variables Those would have to be dumped from the pads or stashes.

Re: stringification of objects, subroutine refs

2002-05-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:58 PM -0700 5/10/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I was wondering how perl6 would stringify (as in Data::Dumper): That's not stringification. It's serialization, which is a different thing entirely. What you'll potentially get is a thing that can be completely reconstituted into what it orig