Hmm... but what if I need to check for, say, an array of objects of a certain type? Suppose I do this: 
package Foo;
sub new { bless {}, shift }
sub get { $_[0]->{$_[1]} }
sub set { $_[0]->{$_[1]} = $_[2] }

package main;
my @list = (Foo->new, Foo->new, Foo->new);

$list[0]->set('a', 'b');
$list[1]->set('b', 'a');
$list[2]->set('x', 'y');

my $isa_foo = sub { UNIVERSAL::isa(shift, 'Foo') };

print join ',', map_recursive(\@list, $isa_foo);

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This doesn't work, because map_recursive will descend an extra level into the Foo structure itself, and give me intermingled 1s and 0s which have no meaning to me or my program whatsoever.

It descends into the Foo, finding it to be a hash, and declares 0 on 'a', 'b', and 'y', since they aren't Foos. Or: 

my @list2 = ( {a => 'm'}, { 1 => 55}, { Foo => 'Bar' });
my $h = sub { UNIVERSAL::isa(shift, 'HASH') };

print join ',', map_recursive (\@list2, $h);

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And here I'm looking to check for an array of hashes. But oh my, 55 isn't a hash, so this gets disqualified. You see now why map_recursive won't do; the format I'm using allows one to specify the whole structure.

However, it doesn't quite work yet...

Update: clemburg's solution below works better than the one above. I think I'll probably use that. Thanks you, clemburg.

In reply to Re: Re: Type checker not checking out by premchai21
in thread Type checker not checking out by premchai21

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