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Yves Orton wrote: > Thanks. I like your proposal. A lot. If we agree on something so readily, there must be some misunder- standing. :-) > The reason I left blessed untouched was that it was possible to bless > things into a class which evaluated to false and blessed is supposed > to return the classname, so we needed a way to tell apart the silly > buggers from the rest. It has never actually worked reliably. With one line of code I can cause all classes blessed into 0 to be blessed into ::0 instead. And bless "\0" has not caused ref to return false since 5.16. > If it is no longer possible to bless things into such a class then we > could change the "false" return. > > Alternatively we could split the blessed() functionality into two > routines is_blessed() which returns a boolean, and blessed() which > continues to return the classname. We already have ref(). If blessed() returns true, then get the class name from ref().Thread Previous | Thread Next