BFD - Impromptu dumping of data structures for debugging purposes

   my $scary_structure1 = foo();
   my $scary_structure2 = bar();
   use BFD; d $scary_structure1, " hmmm ", $scary_structure2, ...;
   ....

Allows for impromptu dumping of output to STDERR. Useful when you want to take a peek at a nest Perl data structure by emitting (relatively) nicely formatted output with filename and line number prefixed to each line.

Basically,

    use BFD;d $foo;

is shorthand for

    use Data::Dumper;
    local $Data::Dumper::Indent    = 1;
    local $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0;
    local $Data::Dumper::Terse     = 1;
    local $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys  = 1;
    my $msg = Dumper( $foo );
    $msg =~ s/^/$where: /mg;
    warn $msg;

I use this incantation soooo often that a TLA version is warranted. YMMV.

Uses Data::Dumper, which has varying degrees of stability and usefulness on different versions of perl.

Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>

Copyright (c) 2003, Barrie Slaymaker. All Rights Reserved.

You may use this software under the terms of the GNU Public License, the Artistic License, the BSD license, or the MIT license.

Good luck and God Speed.