Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>I'd also like some 'what are you' introspection I can do on all scalars, on
>a more formal basis than 'ref'. Either an expansion of the 'ref' functionality
>to cover filehandles, or a more general system...

What do you mean, "formal"?  ref() has always been a de facto typeof
operator, no?

    open my $fh, "< /etc/motd";
    print ref $fh
GLOB

--tom