[Israel.pm] Perl and Debugging question

[Gaal Yahas]

On 5/14/07, Jason Elbaum <jason.elbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What I'm advocating is to put "how to print me" responsibility in the object,
> > not the printer.
>
> Aah, but maybe if there were a conventional way for an object to tell
> the debugger, "this is how to print me"?

Certainly: the object could "do" the Dumpable Role, and "x" would
invoke its "to_dump" method, with all configuration coming from the
Role, possibly overridden by the class, possibly overridden by the
instance, possibly overridden by debugger options, possibly overridden
by some x-command-line modifiers.

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