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Though bless indeed requires a reference as argument it actually tells the thingy referenced by REF that it is now an object, so it blesses the thingy, and not the reference:

use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my %hash; say ref \%hash; bless \%hash, "Whatever"; say ref \%hash; __END__ HASH Whatever

PS of course you can bless reference too:

use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my %hash; my $ref = \%hash; bless $ref, 'Array'; bless \$ref, 'Whatever'; say ref \%hash; say ref \$ref; __END__ Array Whatever

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Re^3: Blessing tied hash
by anazawa (Scribe) on May 06, 2012 at 07:24 UTC
    Thanks for your suggestion. Though I'm sure your code works so, not sure how to relate your code with what you mentioned. Does your code prove what you mentioned? 'thingy' sounds unclear for me :(
    Anyway, thanks :)

      thingy is what the reference points to, it may be hash, array, scalar, subroutine. What I'm saying, and what code demonstrates is that you can bless a hash, not just the reference as tobyink said.

        That makes sense. Although bless() requires a reference to the thingy, bless() makes the thingy blessed, not the reference itself. I didn't care this slight difference. In this context, to bless a tied hash, we pass the reference (to a tied hash) to bless().