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

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:52:13PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> 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

Fortunately, there's a warning.

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• [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Tom Christiansen
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Gisle Aas
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Casey West
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Abigail
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Abigail
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Gisle Aas
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Gisle Aas
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by hv
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by schwern
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Gisle Aas
• Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references by Rafael Garcia-Suarez