Looking at the Perl lexer, they appear to be the same. Sorry. :)

B::Deparse has has some major work done recently. I believe 5.6.1 was released somewhere around patch 9500. I get the same results with the latest version.

The B::* family is still a scary bunch of code, though. You might like B::Generate, which is a nifty solution in search of a problem. :)

Update: demerphq pointed out that the important thing under consideration is the *scope* of the variables. There is indeed scary magic in the Perl lexer between these two types. I missed the point, and apologize for any confusion.

(There, that ought to clear up that Guru on a Mountain illusion in the rest of you. :)