Negated is_deeply() function in Test::More

Question

Test::More has is_deeply() and mentions in the documentation that it should be used instead of eq_array() or eq_hash() because it has better diagnostics, and it states ...They may be deprecated in future versions

Now I'm replacing the use of eq_...() functions for is_deeply() but I run into a problem, there is no is_not_deeply() or such function, and I have a test like this:

ok (!eq_hash(\%h1, \%h2));

Is there an idiomatic alternative I can use to test deep inequality, preferably using Test::More?

Unlike eq_hash(), which just returns true or false and needs to be wrapped in ok(), is_deeply() itself is a test. So if you wrap it in "ok()" like below:

ok(!is_deeply(\%h1, \%h2));

There are now TWO tests, is_deeply() which is failing and ok(), which would pass!

Answer 1

It seems like this feature is not readily available with Test::More. Then I would recommend using Test2 instead:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Test2::V0;

my %h1 = (a => [1,2,3], b=>"x");
my %h2 = (a => [1,2,3], b=>"x");

isnt (\%h1, \%h2, "Hashes are not equal" );
done_testing;