So, if the problem is that Data::Dumper dumps some structures wrong, then submit a patch to Data::Dumper, rather than inventing something different that a lot of people won't know about and leaving the buggy code in a core distribution.

As for your example: 

$x = 4;
$xx = sub{\@_}->(\$x, \$x);
$y = \4;
$yy = sub{\@_}->($y, $y);

bless \$xx->[0], 'Foo';
bless \$xx->[1], 'Bar';
bless \$yy->[0], 'Foo';
bless \$yy->[1], 'Bar';

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $xx, $yy;

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