Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references

On 6 Oct 2003, at 21:44, Gisle Aas wrote:
> I've noticed that the documentation of bless already says "Make sure
> that CLASSNAME is a true value" and have said that for a long time.  I
> think we could simply enforce that and disallow all of these:
>
>    bless $thing, 0
>    bless $thing, "";
>    bless $thing, undef;

Well the last two cause ref to return "main" which may surprise some 
people

Graham.

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