On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:12 AM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> beginners@perl.org: > > While coding some tests tonight, I discovered that Scalar::Util::blessed() > considers Regexp references to be blessed. > > > Is this a bug or a feature? > Implementation detail. Internally, regexen have their own data type, REGEXP (which you can see with Scalar::Util::reftype), which is then 'blessed' into the Regexp class. This actually allows some very cool tricks, but nothing that should ever see the light of a production server, or show up in a beginners mailing list : )
