in reply to deep_copy objects question

You need to bless the copy with the class the original was blessed into. You might want to take a look at Scalar::Util and the blessed() function, because not all objects are hashrefs (mine tend to be arrays) and, even if all your objects were hashrefs, then you'd assume all hashrefs were objects.

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