No, there is no perl intrinsic type that doesn't have a true value. And there are more than eight. We have: HASH, ARRAY, SCALAR, CODE, GLOB, IO, REF, and FORMAT, and then there is an intrinsic type that doesnt have its own designation, that being qr// objects, which report themselves as SCALAR but are actually not SCALAR refs. Oh, and i think in later perls you also have VERSION, (or something like that) but I could be mistaken.

Regarding making reftype() return PL_no is that one must assume that people are doing 

if (defined(reftype($x))) { ... }

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or variants thereof. At least thats what I would expect the objection would be to changing the return of reftype. Hence my idea of providing a _reftype().

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In reply to Re^8: Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be (XS/_reftype) by demerphq
in thread Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be by dragonchild

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