annihilate refkind stupidity

diff --git a/lib/SQL/Abstract.pm b/lib/SQL/Abstract.pm
index 606ef6d..51b733b 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/SQL/Abstract.pm
+++ b/lib/SQL/Abstract.pm
@@ -875,70 +875,6 @@ sub _sqlcase {
   return $_[0]->{case} ? $_[1] : uc($_[1]);
 }
 
-
-#======================================================================
-# DISPATCHING FROM REFKIND
-#======================================================================
-
-sub _refkind {
-  my ($self, $data) = @_;
-
-  return 'UNDEF' unless defined $data;
-
-  # blessed objects are treated like scalars
-  my $ref = (Scalar::Util::blessed $data) ? '' : ref $data;
-
-  return 'SCALAR' unless $ref;
-
-  my $n_steps = 1;
-  while ($ref eq 'REF') {
-    $data = $$data;
-    $ref = (Scalar::Util::blessed $data) ? '' : ref $data;
-    $n_steps++ if $ref;
-  }
-
-  return ($ref||'SCALAR') . ('REF' x $n_steps);
-}
-
-sub _try_refkind {
-  my ($self, $data) = @_;
-  my @try = ($self->_refkind($data));
-  push @try, 'SCALAR_or_UNDEF' if $try[0] eq 'SCALAR' || $try[0] eq 'UNDEF';
-  push @try, 'FALLBACK';
-  return \@try;
-}
-
-sub _METHOD_FOR_refkind {
-  my ($self, $meth_prefix, $data) = @_;
-
-  my $method;
-  for (@{$self->_try_refkind($data)}) {
-    $method = $self->can($meth_prefix."_".$_)
-      and last;
-  }
-
-  return $method || puke "cannot dispatch on '$meth_prefix' for ".$self->_refkind($data);
-}
-
-
-sub _SWITCH_refkind {
-  my ($self, $data, $dispatch_table) = @_;
-
-  my $coderef;
-  for (@{$self->_try_refkind($data)}) {
-    $coderef = $dispatch_table->{$_}
-      and last;
-  }
-
-  puke "no dispatch entry for ".$self->_refkind($data)
-    unless $coderef;
-
-  $coderef->();
-}
-
-
-
-
 #======================================================================
 # VALUES, GENERATE, AUTOLOAD
 #======================================================================

diff --git a/t/09refkind.t b/t/09refkind.t
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 1044231..0000000
--- a/t/09refkind.t
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use Test::More;
-use SQL::Abstract;
-
-plan tests => 13;
-
-my $obj = bless {}, "Foo::Bar";
-
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(undef), 'UNDEF', 'UNDEF');
-
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind({}), 'HASHREF', 'HASHREF');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind([]), 'ARRAYREF', 'ARRAYREF');
-
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\{}), 'HASHREFREF', 'HASHREFREF');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\[]), 'ARRAYREFREF', 'ARRAYREFREF');
-
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\\{}), 'HASHREFREFREF', 'HASHREFREFREF');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\\[]), 'ARRAYREFREFREF', 'ARRAYREFREFREF');
-
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind("foo"), 'SCALAR', 'SCALAR');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\"foo"), 'SCALARREF', 'SCALARREF');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\\"foo"), 'SCALARREFREF', 'SCALARREFREF');
-
-# objects are treated like scalars
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind($obj), 'SCALAR', 'SCALAR');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\$obj), 'SCALARREF', 'SCALARREF');
-is(SQL::Abstract->_refkind(\\$obj), 'SCALARREFREF', 'SCALARREFREF');
-