Re: what would you like to see in perl5.12?

Another late addition from a previous idea: bring some functionality from Scalar::Util into core ref by having the latter return, in list context, respectively: REF, ADDR, BLESSED, where

REF would be ref()'s current output if the reference is not blessed, and if it is then the same as if it were not,
ADDR the same as refaddr()'s and
BLESSED the package the reference is blessed in, if it is, or undef otherwise.

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Re^2: what would you like to see in perl5.12? by ysth (Canon) on Aug 26, 2007 at 19:51 UTC
Hmm. Not sure that would be worth it, given the possibility of `foo(ref($bar), "baz")`, etc.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: what would you like to see in perl5.12? by blazar (Canon) on Aug 27, 2007 at 18:03 UTC
Yes you're perfectly right. One should see how much existing codebase is affected. Perhaps it should have been there from start. In any case I can see that p5p would hardly risk even if they found the feature as desirable as I do. But... if that's "what I would like to see in Perl (5.12)" ... well, this is one such thing!	[reply]