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I think that Sereal might retain aliases properly. The spec at least has a type for a proper alias, and I think I remember hearing in a talk about Sereal that it does retain that. Also, Data::Dump::Stream, by demerphq might also properly retain aliases.

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Re^12: Executing functions from another process
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 24, 2014 at 18:04 UTC
    The spec at least has a type for a proper alias

    Hm. Wouldn't REFP be more appropriate? (In that the described problem is a dereferencable, reference rather than an alias.)

    That said, Storable & Clone (and even Dump) handle references to arrays and hashes, including ensuring that multiple embedded references to the same array or hash retain that property once thawed. It is a bit strange that they don't handle scalar references correctly.

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