Re^4: Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be

So, should there be a patch to reftype() so that it returns one(qw{HASH ARRAY SCALAR CODE GLOB IO REF}) or the empty string?

Why is reftype() even checking ref() in the first place ... reftype() is supposed to return the underlying representation, not the classname. I thought that's what blessed() is for.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^5: Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 10, 2006 at 14:06 UTC
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