On 17 December 2013 06:52, Tony Cook via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Sun Dec 01 19:48:17 2013, tonyc wrote: >> On Wed Nov 20 21:56:29 2013, tonyc wrote: >> > I've attached a patch that modifies Data::Dumper to dump regexp >> > objects using the list form of regexp_pattern(), both in the perl and >> > XS code paths. >> > >> > Is this the desired behaviour? >> >> Oops, somehow I missed adding the actually useful patch. >> >> Here it is, I hope. > > I've applied this as b183d514e3e9929ed0c33d4178f16937e6dcbbe1 with some test adjustments to work on older perls. > > Let's see how many CPAN modules test against the literal output of Data::Dumper > dumps. > > Leaving this ticket open for a) the fall-out, b) maybe I'll follow Dave's suggestion about codeblocks. Thanks a lot for the work Tony. If you ever make it to Amsterdam the beer is on me. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous