Thanks to a patch from Tom Phoenix, Data::Dumper::Simple 0.07 is on its way to the CPAN. This is an attempt to make parentheses optional:
use Data::Dumper::Simple; print Dumper $scalar, @array, %hash; __END__ $scalar = 'Ovid'; @array = ( 'Data', 'Dumper', 'Simple', 'Rocks!' ); %hash = ( 'it' => 'does', 'I' => 'hope', 'at' => 'least' );
I also fixed a little known bug which would trigger indirect method syntax with some subroutines, most notably with &Test::More::diag. Previously, you had to use the parens with diag, now you don't.
diag(Dumper $foo, @bar); diag Dumper $foo, @bar; # same thing