use Perl

• Okay - that convinces me (Score:1)

  by Adrian (66)

  I think Test::Most is now replacing my default use Test::More :-)
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    To be fair, I haven't actually added the default "show variable name" behavior yet. I've got to get the interface issues nailed down first :)

    And why weren't you using it beforehand? I even bundle one of your modules [cpan.org] with it!
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Adrian (66)

      "And why weren't you using it beforehand"

      Lazy - in the bad way.
• Data::Dump (Score:1)

  by dingo (8929)

  i prefer to use Data::Dump because it avoids the ugly $VAR1 cruft
• Yes! (Score:1)

  by jeremiah (7870)

  I like the elegance of show with the source filter.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Surprise! It's done without a source filter :) It uses Data::Dumper::Names which, in turn, uses PadWalker to fetch the variable names. Test::Most 0.20_01 [cpan.org] has a developer implementation. Already I have a couple of issues.

    First, since Data::Dumper::Names 0.03 is only recommended and not required, one test fails sporadically. My bad :) Also, because this uses PadWalker, this shows us as $VAR1 instead of the variable name:

    show $@;

    That's because $@ is not a lexical. I don't know how to get around that,
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      I wonder if it’s possible to find your caller’s op tree and find your call site in it, then isolate the parameter expression and deparse it… that would be a rock solid approach.

      But I don’t know if the Perl introspection stuff is quite up to that level at this point.