Re: RFC 224 (v1) Objects : Rationalizing C<ref>, C<attribute::reftype>, and C<builtin::blessed>

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:54:30AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >This RFC proposes that rather than three separate mechanisms (in three
> >separate namespaces) to determine object typing information, Perl 6
> >simply extend the C<ref> function to return all the necessary
> >information in a list context.
> 
> That sounds nice.  It would also cure the funny business I tacitly
> demonstrated in my last message in which ref defaults to $_ but
> that reftype does not.

It also reminds me of an RFC I did not submit, which was about
reftype() and blessed() in the Scalar::Util package. Currently
it is not very efficient to determine if a reference is blessed

Graham.