On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 01:59:22PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Eric Wilhelm asked me to chime in here.
>
> is_deeply() is about checking that two structures contain the same values.
> This is different from checking that they're the same *things*, that they are
> in fact the same object or reference.
>
> You need both.
> [...]
Since it wasn't explicitly mentioned in Schwern's post, I'll add
that Perl 6 uses infix:<===> for checking identity, as in "Are these two
things the same object or reference?"
my $a = [1,2,3];
my $b = [1,2,3];
$a eqv $b # True
$a === $b # False
Pm
