How do you print the address of objects with an overloaded stringification operator?

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I've got a Class::DBI object which is being destroyed without saving
changes, and trying to track down where it's created.

Thus, I'm trying to find out what it's address is. Usually with a Perl
object, I'd just print it, because the stringification operator tells me
the memory address. But that's overloaded in Class::DBI.

I can of course:
My $oldClass =3D ref $object;
Bless $object, 'NO_CLASS';
Print $object;
Bless $object, $oldClass;

But this is about as ugly a kludge as you can get.

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