package Blessed::Re;
use overload q{""} => 'stringify';
sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $word  = shift;
    my $self = qr/\[$word\]/;
    return bless $self, $class;
}


sub stringify {
    my $self = shift;
    my $string = overload::StrVal $self;
    $string =~ s/SCALAR/Regexp/;
    return $string;
}

package main;
my $x = Blessed::Re->new('word');
print "Class: ",ref $x,"\n";
print "Type: ", $x =~ /=(\w+)\(/, "\n";
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On the other hand, you did say "cleanly" ...

Actually stringifying a regex does not return a string that contains "Regexp". It will look like any other scalar reference that has been stringified. (Youre thinking of what ref() would return.)

Thats part of the problem...

:-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

But that's why I overloaded stringification to contain 'Regexp' instead of 'SCALAR', because we still want ref() to return the classname and we want some way to determine of our blessed object is a Regexp type right?