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yeah that's why CGI::Carp translates -> to -ť and so on, which makes some dumps hard to read.

My preference to <...> over [...] stems from the fact that square brackets are easily confused as array syntax by the eye.

I'd suggest to either double or invert the angle brackets, I doubt that <<...>> or >...< are easily confused as HTML tags.

I was wrong with the simple doubling, this <<br>> would be a a break surrounded by angles.

Though this might help ->...<-

I'm open for other ASCII suggestions, i.e. avoiding unicode.

Cheers Rolf
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