Actually its really weird you bring this up today. Ive encountered this annoyance before and ended up writing my own reftype for Data::Dump::Streamer which returns an Pl_no when the item isn't a ref. And I just a few hours ago wrote on my todo list that this should be included in Scalar::Util as _reftype(). Unfortunately the Pl_no logic doesnt work with blessed as '0' and '' are both valid (but evil) classnames.

Anyway, if you want to avoid this problem you can use DDS::reftype() instead.

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In reply to Re: Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be by demerphq
in thread Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be by dragonchild

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