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

Gah. Because it was done wrong, all future versions have to do it wrong because people have a hack around it being done wrong. That's sad.

Suggestion: Don't call it _reftype(). Call it what_reftype_shoulda_done()

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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