[perl #40210] [TODO] Provide a way for PGE's dump to go to string

[Will Coleda]

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While the primary use of dump is for immediate debug output (and
therefore puts is ok), being able to get at the string it generates
is *very* useful for testing.

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Will "Coke" Coleda
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[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:16:46AM -0700, Will Coleda wrote:
> While the primary use of dump is for immediate debug output (and
> therefore puts is ok), being able to get at the string it generates
> is *very* useful for testing.

I've refactored the existing 'dump' method into separate
'dump_str' and 'dump' methods in runtime/parrot/library/PGE/Dumper.pir.
Available as of r14306.

Thanks!

Pm

[Patrick R. Michaud via RT]

Done as dump_str() method to Match objects, r14306.

Thanks!

Pm