Re: Object Identification Cold War and the return of autobox.pm (wasRe: UNIVERSAL::ref might make ref( $mocked_obj ) sane)

[Michael G Schwern]

Adam Kennedy wrote:
>> IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS COMPLICATED TO IDENTIFY THE HERITAGE OF AN OBJECT!
> 
> use Params::Util '_INSTANCE';
> 
> if ( _INSTANCE($obj, 'Whatever') ) {
> 
> }

Oh good, depend on another module to implement a basic language feature.

(I appreciate your suggestion but I'm LAMENTING here! :P )


PS  Shouldn't that be something like _is_instance_of() ?