By using overload it is possible to change the standard stringification of an object. This is a very nice and wonderful feature, which can be a bit of a pain during development and debugging. It is at those times, I have found myself wanting to get the standard stringification for an object, just as a visual aid for debugging.
This little sub does just that: it gives you the standard stringification.
I wonder if it would make sense to add this to Scalar::Util as well.
use Scalar::Util qw(blessed reftype refaddr);
sub stringify ($) {sprintf "%s=%s(0x%x)",blessed $_[0],reftype $_[0],r
+efaddr $_[0]}
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