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Yes, very true!

 

Strongly-typed langauges tend to be more difficult to dump contents of things to, just *because* they are strong-typed...

 

Types need conversions to be done to them, and structures need to be rigidly iterated over to access their contents.

 

I was just referring to the 'magic' that Perl modules like Data::Dumper do 'under the covers' for me.