| PackageDescription | Most perl dumping modules are focused on serializing data structures into a
format that can be rebuilt into the original data structure. They do this
with a variety of different focuses, such as human readability, the ability
to execute the dumped code directly, or to minimize the size of the dumped
data.
Excect for the one contained in the debugger, in the file dumpvar.pl. This
is a much more human-readable form, highly useful for debugging, containing
a lot of extra information without the burden of needing to allow the dump
to be re-assembled into the original data.
The main downside of the dumper in the perl-debugger is that the dumpvar.pl
script is not really a readily loadable and useable module. It has
dedicated hooks from and to the debugger, and spans across multiple
namespaces, including main::.
Devel::Dumpvar is a pure object-orientated reimplementation of the same
functionality. This makes it much more versatile version to use for dumping
information to debug log files or other uses where you don't need to
reassemble the data. |