What's the deal with reftype { } ?
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I recently saw some code that reminded me to ask this question. Lately, I've been seeing a lot of this:
use Scalar::Util 'reftype';
if ( reftype $some_ref eq reftype { } ) { ... }
What is the purpose of calling reftype on an anonymous hashref? Why not just say eq 'HASH' ?
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