I'm a little surprised about the behavior of Test::More::is_deeply()

I have a deeply nested data-structure supposed to return contain scalar refs.

But is_deeply() digs into the refs and compares the scalar values.

I can understand why array- and hash-refs are dereferenced ...

Any elegant way to solve this? I also tried Test::Deep::cmp_deeply() but no success

will try Test::Differences now ... 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;
use Test::More;
use Test::Deep;


my ($pos1,$pos2)=("a","a");


diag \$pos1,", ",\$pos2;
diag 0+\$pos1,", ",0+\$pos2;
diag pp \$pos1,\$pos2;


is_deeply( \$pos1, \$pos2,"is_deeply");   #should fail

cmp_deeply( \$pos1, \$pos2,"cmp_deeply"); #should fail


done_testing;

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C:/Perl_524/bin\perl.exe -w d:/exp/pm_is_deeply.pl 
ok 1 - is_deeply
ok 2 - cmp_deeply
# SCALAR(0xd286e8), SCALAR(0xd28d48)
# 13797096, 13798728
# (\"a", \"a")
1..2

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Test scalar refs (not values) in deeply nested structure by LanX

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