Well, I dont support Dumper style variable naming, I do a Dump style do{} output instead. But heres your two cases. From what I can tell they come out correctly. Let me know if they are wrong.

UPDATE
Doh. I shouldhave read your bugreport more carefully. Obviously both of these are incorrect in the respect that you mention. But i'm pretty sure that I can resolve that. Ill let you know.

Oh and thanks, I've been meaning to get the Dumper test cases and run them through BFDump, but keep forgetting. So now that I've been reminded the download is running... ;-) 

use Data::BFDump qw(BFDump);

my @dogs = ( 'Fido', 'Wags' );
my %kennel = (
  First => \$dogs[0],
  Second =>  \$dogs[1],
);
$dogs[2] = \%kennel;
my $mutts = \%kennel;

print "BFDump(\\\@dogs, \\\%kennel, \$mutts);\n";
print BFDump(\@dogs, \%kennel, $mutts),"\n\n";
print "BFDump(\\\%kennel, \\\@dogs, \$mutts);\n";
print BFDump(\%kennel, \@dogs, $mutts),"\n";

__END__
BFDump(\@dogs, \%kennel, $mutts);
do {
    my $RT_ARRAY = [
                     'Fido',
                     'Wags',
                     {}
                   ];
    my $RT_HASH  = {
                     First  => \do { my $v = 'Fido' },
                     Second => \do { my $v = 'Wags' }
                   };
    $RT_ARRAY->[2] = $RT_HASH;
    ( $RT_ARRAY, $RT_HASH, $RT_HASH )
}

BFDump(\%kennel, \@dogs, $mutts);
do {
    my $RT_HASH  = {
                     First  => \do { my $v = 'Fido' },
                     Second => \do { my $v = 'Wags' }
                   };
    my $RT_ARRAY = [
                     'Fido',
                     'Wags',
                     $RT_HASH
                   ];
    ( $RT_HASH, $RT_ARRAY, $RT_HASH )
}

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Oh and if anyone is wondering what the RT means in the variable names, it stands for root.

Yves / DeMerphq
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Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

In reply to Re: •Re: Reinventing the wheel: Dumper Difficulties by demerphq
in thread Reinventing the wheel: Dumper Difficulties by demerphq

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