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diff --git a/devel/p5-Data-Dump-Streamer/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Data-Dump-Streamer/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..515090969838 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Data-Dump-Streamer/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Converts a data structure into a sequence of perl statements sufficient for +recreating the original via eval. This module is very similar in concept to +Data::Dumper and Data::Dump, with the major differences being that this module +is designed to output to a stream instead of constructing its output in memory, +and that the traversal over the data structure is effectively breadth first +versus the depth first traversal done by the others. + +In fact the data structure is scanned twice, first in breadth first mode to +perform structural analysis, and then in depth first mode to actually produce +the output, but obeying the depth relationships of the first pass. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Dump-Streamer/ |