demerphq++; I mostly agree with what you've said. But Perl already disallows some similar things so I'd really like to make blessing into things like '', '0', 'HASH', and "\0" illegal just to put some things to rest.

I'm quite tired of hearing about how simple code doesn't work in all cases and the resulting discussions of things-that-should-never-be-done that would break the simple code and then people replacing really simple code with really complicated code in order to deal with this nonsense.

Now, this will only fix one of the problems with ref($h) eq 'HASH', but there are other improvements that fix the other problems [UNIVERSAL::isa() and Scalar::Utils].

                - tye

In reply to Re^4: Recursive map Design Questions by tye
in thread Recursive map Design Questions by bsb

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