in reply to Re: Is "ref $date eq 'ARRAY'" wrong?
in thread Is "ref $date eq 'ARRAY'" wrong?

Probably not. wantarray tells you what the caller wanted returned from a sub. ref tells you what a specific var is holding a ref to, which is what the OP is asking about.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
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: () { :|:& };:

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