blessed v unblessed references

[Ovid]

--- Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> How do you safely tell whether a reference is blessed or not? When I
> say safely, I mean without the runtime aborting.

  use Scalar::Util 'blessed';

  if ( blessed $reference ) {
      dump;
  else {
      # :)
  }

OK, wee bit of a joke there.  Don't call 'dump'.  You get the idea :)

Cheers,
Ovid


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