Sorry for editing this post so much, but I changed my mind a minute after posting and no one had replied to it yet:

These are topologically different: 

my $ar1=[$x,$x];
my $ar2=[$y,$z];

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But these are the same: 

my $ar3=[$x,$x];
my $ar4=[$y,$y];

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That is, the comparison should care about the addresses of the references, but it should care about loops. Another way of looking at it is: deeply equivalent references should have the same canonical representation when dumped. Compare the following: 

# $ar1
$VAR1 = [
          {},
          $VAR1->[0]
        ];

# $ar2
$VAR1 = [
          {},
          {}
        ];

# $ar3
$VAR1 = [
          {},
          $VAR1->[0]
        ];

# $ar4
$VAR1 = [
          {},
          $VAR1->[0]
        ];

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In reply to Re: Do you consider these different or the same? by itub
in thread Do you consider these different or the same? by demerphq

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