use strict; use warnings; no warnings 'experimental::signatures'; use feature qw/say signatures/; use List::Util qw(all); BEGIN { ( *array_numeq,*array_streq ) = map { my $compare = $_; + sub :prototype(\@\@) ($l,$r) { @$l == @$r && all { $compare->($l->[$_],$r->[$_]) } 0 .. $#$l } } sub { shift == shift }, sub { shift eq shift } } my @left = ( 1, 2, 3 ); my @right = ( 1, 2, 3 ); { local $" = ','; say "(@left) ", ( array_numeq @left, @right ) ? "matches" : "doesn't match", " (@right)"; }