For example, if I have a simple hashref-based object, and I want to turn it into a unblessed hash (the same hash, not a copy of it), is there any way to do that?

I know that I can easily copy it into an unblessed hash like this: 

package HashBasedObject;
sub new {
  my ($class, %arg) = @_;
  bless {%arg}, $class;
}
sub unblessed_copy {
  my $self = shift;
  return {%$self};
}
1;

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or an an arrayref based object like this: 
package ArrayBasedObject;
sub new {
  my ($class, @arg) = @_;
  bless [@arg], $class;
}
sub unblessed_copy {
  my $self = shift;
  return [@$self];
}
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but is there a way to unbless $self directly.

In reply to How can I unbless an object? by mp

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