use strict; use UNIVERSAL 'isa'; sub deep_grep (&@) { my $test = shift; my ( @results, %seen ); while ( scalar @_ ) { my $target = shift @_; push @results, grep $test->( $_ ), $target; unshift @_, $seen{$target} ++ ? () : isa($target, 'HASH') ? values %$target : isa($target, 'ARRAY') ? @$target : isa($target, 'REF') ? $$target : isa($target, 'SCALAR') ? $$target : (); } return @results; } #### my @loggers = deep_grep( sub { isa( $_, 'Log' ) }, $target ); my @loggers = deep_grep { isa( $_, 'Log' ) } $target;