Otherwise any blessed scalar is another type?

I tend to think that a scalar has a reference to a blessed thing rather than the scalar itself being blessed. 

my $unblessed = {};
my $blessed = $unblessed;
bless $blessed, 'Holy::Holy';
printf "%s\n%s\n", ref $unblessed, ref $blessed;
__END__
Holy::Holy
Holy::Holy

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That's just a nitpick, though.

I ordinarily wouldn't think of some user-created object as being a separate data type except that they can be overloaded to act just like one. Where does something like Math::BigInt fit in? I think this is a point on which reasonable people can disagree.

That also makes me wonder if we could count iterators somehow.

I don't know what you mean by this.

In reply to Re^3: What are all the Perl data types? by kyle
in thread What are all the Perl data types? by princepawn

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