Re^3: How to tell if a variable is blessed ?

What does this buy you that a simple ref won't?

if ( ref($obj) eq "Foo" )
{
   # We have a Foo object
}
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Simple, sweet, and gets the job done. Why over engineer? Of course, if you were already using Scalar::Util for some of its other uses, then I'd say great, but to use a module for something as simple as this, is overcomplicating matters.

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Re^4: How to tell if a variable is blessed ?
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 02, 2006 at 15:17 UTC

Because if you're merely interested in finding out if the reference is to an instance of some class (as opposed to a hashref, arrayref, ...), what do you put on the other side of the eq? Not to mention the problems with that if you want to gracefully handle subclasses (in which case you really want UNIVERSAL::isa()).

And ++ to xdg; I'd forgotten all about Scalar::Util::blessed. Much better answer than mine.

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Re^5: How to tell if a variable is blessed ?

by xdg (Monsignor) on Mar 02, 2006 at 15:34 UTC

Thanks!

If you want to see some interesting complexity on what should be such a simple topic, see Why reftype and blessed are making my life harder than it needs to be.

-xdg

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Re^4: How to tell if a variable is blessed ?
by jasonk (Parson) on Mar 02, 2006 at 19:14 UTC

Because the question was how to tell if the reference was blessed, not how to tell if it was blessed into a specific package, ref won't tell you that unless you do a lot of && ref($obj) !~ /HASH/ && ref($obj) !~ /ARRAY/...

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

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