Re: code line of the day

[email protected] (Smylers) Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:36:40 +0100
Newsgroups perl.fwp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John Douglas Porter writes:

> But if you want to be anal, and throw your own exceptions on the wrong
> types of refs, then Scalar::Util lets you avoid having to reinvent the
> ref-testing wheel, mostly.

But please don't!  I've encountered a few Cpan modules which want a
filename as a string.  A Path::Class::File object overloads very nicely
as a string of a filename, but excessive reference testing by the
modules in question meant it got rejected.

Sorry, this isn't fun.

Smylers