That's deeply confusing

Indeed. To begin with, it was a case of TL;DR, so it took me a couple of weeks to summons the energy to actually look at it ;-)
I initially just changed the condition form '!=' to '<' (which was actually a more appropriate condition anyway) and any failures were then reported normally.
This issue is actually cropping up in a new module I'm putting together, and there's one particular function that I haven't yet got quite right ... hence the occasional failures.

The diagnostics suggest that, after the $unoverload() call, both $got and $expect are still Math::MPFR objects, unaltered in any way.
Devel::Peek::Dump() calls done before and after the $unoverload() call, confirm this.

$unoverload is the string "_unoverload_num", which by the look of it (I'm guessing) disables the '0+' overloading.
There is no '0+' overloadinging in Math::MPFR - I've never bothered with '0+' because I've never hit a case where it serves a useful purpose.
AFAIK, when a Math::MPFR object is used in a numeric (unoverloaded) context, then the stringification of that Math::MPFR object is automatically used in numeric context. And that has always served just fine.
(Mind you, this new module I'm playing with might well require '0+' overloading, as I doubt that the stringification will DWIM when used in numeric context.)

I know there are aspects of overloading that I don't understand well ... and '0+' overloading could well be one of them.
I think that Math::GMPq is the only module where I've overloaded '0+', and that was done simply because strings like '11/65537' don't DWIM when used in numeric context.
For example, the condition ('11/65537' == '11/2') is TRUE .... and that doesn't DWIM well at all.

Cheers,
Rob

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