The docs show an example of:

  print ref $@;           # "Exception::Died"
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Indicating that it converts plain strings or whatever into objects. But I'm getting no string back from  ref $@ at all, not "Exception::Died" or any other class name.

That is, I should still see something is in $@ and be able to figure out what to do with it using data dumper, ref, etc.