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Re: Test::More and 'deep' tests: msg#00030

Subject: Re: Test::More and 'deep' tests
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Tels wrote:
> Real world example: [*]
> 
> te@null:~> perl -MTest::More -MMath::String -wle 'plan tests => 1; $a = 
> Math::String->new("abc"); $b = $a->copy()->bneg(); ok $a,$b; print "$a != $b 
> (", $a->as_number(), " != ", $b->as_number(),")";'
> 1..1
> ok 1 - abc
> abc != abc (731 != -731)
> 
> ok() considers them equal, since it uses "eq" internally. Should is_deeply() 
> also consider them equal? Good question, I have no idea, never having uses 
> is_deeply().

is_deeply() should compare pretty much like is() which uses string equality.
So yes, is_deeply() should consider them equal.


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