From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-08-08T16:22:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Data::Dumper Request

On Thursday, August 05, 2010 03:07:39 am Brent Clark wrote:
> Hiya
> 
> I know we can use JSON, YAML, Marshal etc for representation of the data.
> 
> Personally I find the above solutions clunky.

How so?

I mainly used Dumper in Perl for two reasons:
 - I wasn't aware of easy options for JSON/YAML/etc for storing data.
 - I wanted to see what was actually going on in my objects.

So I'm curious, because I prefer the above solutions to something executable 
for the purposes of data storage and transfer -- the only place I'd prefer 
this is when #inspect isn't doing a good enough job for investigating stuff in 
irb.