in reply to Question about Perl refs and basic types

This works for me:

$ perl -E'say ref do { \(my $o = v1.2) }'
VSTRING

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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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