| Subject: | return original argument? |
Some other dumper modules (e.g. XXX, Data::Dmp) return their original arguments to make it easier to insert a dump statement during logging. How about making dd() and ddx() return the original arguments? They currently don't return anything except the return of print().
I also wrote about this in http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/XXX#11890 reproduced below:
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The part that makes this module convenient is that the functions return their original arguments. So when debugging (peppering dump statements), you don't have to change this:
return ["some", $expr];
to this (taking an example from another dumping module, Data::Dump):
my $tmp = ["some", $expr]; dd $tmp; return $tmp;
but just this:
return YYY ["some", $expr];
This should be imitated by the other dumper functions.
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