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  Tue Feb 01 19:19:26 2011 johanl [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Objects with overloaded stringification
Hi, If I put e.g. a DateTime object in a datastructure, it'll render as the DateTime object's hash ref. But DateTime has stringification overloaded, providing a human readable date. Do you think it would make sense to check whether objects have stringification overloaded, and display that as a scalar value instead of recursing into the object? Thanks, /J
  Mon Feb 07 12:51:18 2011 sharyanto [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Tue Feb 01 19:19:26 2011, JOHANL wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi, > > If I put e.g. a DateTime object in a datastructure, it'll render as
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> DateTime object's hash ref. But DateTime has stringification
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> providing a human readable date. > > Do you think it would make sense to check whether objects have > stringification overloaded, and display that as a scalar value instead > of recursing into the object? > > > Thanks, > > /J
I think stringifying all objects by default is a better default behaviour, since the goal is not dumping data, but formatting. A new 0.06 version has just been released reflecting this. Thanks, -- sh
  Mon Feb 07 12:51:19 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Feb 07 12:51:19 2011 sharyanto [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'