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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Context aware functions - best practices?

by MarkM (Curate)
on Jan 16, 2003 at 20:18 UTC ( [id://227480]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Context aware functions - best practices?
in thread Context aware functions - best practices?

Perl 5.8.0 comes with Scalar::Util. One of the subroutines provided by this module is reftype(). reftype() is superior to UNIVERSAL::isa() in this context. For blessed or non-blessed array references, reftype() will always return 'ARRAY'.

Personally, I plan to use Scalar::Util::reftype() quite a bit in cases where I used to use UNIVERSAL::isa().

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Context aware functions - best practices?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 16, 2003 at 20:39 UTC
    Yup. Thats a good solution too. :-)

    Too bad it wasnt standard kit earlier on. In fact, too bad that reftype wasnt accepted as a pure perl keyword. Likewise for most of the modules contents.

    --- demerphq
    my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

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