--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+BEGIN { unshift @INC, '.' ;}
+
+require Devel::Symdump;
+
+print "1..8\n";
+
+@p = qw(
+scalars arrays hashes functions
+unknowns filehandles dirhandles packages);
+
+$i=0;
+for (@p){
+ @x1 = Devel::Symdump->new->$_();
+ @x2 = Devel::Symdump->$_();
+ unless ("@x1" eq "@x2"){
+ print "x1 [@x1] x2 [@x2]\n";
+ print "not ";
+ }
+ print "ok ", ++$i, "\n";
+}
+