in reply to dereferencing a stringfied referent
I've also been curious about this. I've had to convert references to YAML or JSON and output to a log file, but I agree where this becomes a big issue is where the stringified referent is being used as a hash key. Could anyone inform me if it is reasonable to use a JSON encoded version of the referenced object as a hash key instead of a stringified referent?
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