#!perl -w use strict; use Test qw(plan ok); plan tests => 2; use Data::Dump qw(dump); my $s = \\1; ok(nl(dump($s)), <<'EOT'); \\1 EOT my %s; $s{C1} = \$s{C2}; $s{C2} = \$s{C1}; ok(nl(dump(\%s)), <<'EOT'); do { my $a = { C1 => \\do{my $fix}, C2 => 'fix' }; ${${$a->{C1}}} = $a->{C1}; $a->{C2} = ${$a->{C1}}; $a; } EOT sub nl { shift(@_) . "\n" }