Sereal does not preserve VSTRING ref type

[Grinnz]

After encoding and decoding, a VSTRING ref has become a simple SCALAR ref.

$ perl -MSereal::Encoder -MSereal::Decoder -E'my $v = \v1.2.3; say ref $v; say ref Sereal::Decoder->new->decode(Sereal::Encoder->new->encode($v))'
VSTRING
SCALAR

$ perl -MStorable=freeze,thaw -E'my $v = \v1.2.3; say ref $v; say ref thaw(freeze($v))'
VSTRING
VSTRING

[demerphq]

VSTRING's are ties that lie and claim they are true types. This is unfortunate as it makes people think that things like Sereal should support them. Currently we dont support ties of any sort. And i am sure the non-perl folks are happy too. :-)

Maybe one day we will offer proper vstring support. But it is not a high priority for us.