[LA.pm] Classes with heterogeneous objects?

[Steven Lembark]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 21:14:49 -0800 (PST)
Mike MacKenzie <mackenziemikebus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> You are right of course, ref wouldn't tell you 
> the underlying implementation type.__ However, 
> I think Randall is still correct -- ubiquitous 
> use of introspection code (aka navel gazing) 
> is a real downer.__ Encapsulating the type 
> determination code in a lookup table/method 
> somehow would help but you'd still have the 
> overhead__ -- actually more overhead 
> computationally.

Simple fix: never use "ref" use "reftype" or 
"blessed" instead:

    use Scalar::Util qw( reftype );

    given( reftype $object )
    {
        when( 'HASH' )
        {
        }
        ...
    }

<http://www.slideshare.net/lembark/scalar-list-utils>


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