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Changes for version 2.10

  • Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>.
  • Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up by the presence of nulls in the string. Fix suggested by Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
  • Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become used in data dumped in a later pass. There used to be a problem with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being dumped correctly.
  • Various additions to the testsuite.

Documentation

Modules

stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval