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On 6 Oct 2003, at 17:06, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> writes: >> The first sentence of 'perldoc -f ref' is wrong: >> >> Returns a true value if EXPR is a reference, false otherwise. >> >> To wit: >> >> $ perl -wle 'print ref bless [] => 0' >> 0 > > I would be tempted to make that bless illegal. I dont see why we should treat that specially. People can always bless into a package which has overload and have that return false. The docs should just state that in the general case a reference is true, but there are exceptions and then go on to explain the exceptions Graham.Thread Previous | Thread Next