I'd appeciate the monasteries help in meditating on something. Given the following two arrays, do you consider them to be equivelent or not? 

my $x={};
my $y={};
my $z={};

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

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Or in other words should they be considered to be deep copies of each other or not.

Now, if you said that yes they are equivelent, do you think they should be after 

$_->[0]{a}='foo' for $ar1,$ar2;

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Does this change your opinion or does it justify it or does it not make a difference?

UPDATE: The question this is trying to answer is what should Test::More::is_deeply() do?

My position is it should report the two structures as being different. Some folks take the other position. Im trying to determine what the community thinks.

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In reply to Do you consider these different or the same? by demerphq

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