# KOS_OP_MATCH_SAME - **Style**: EXTRA (LABEL, RAW, RAW): label, mark depth, slot index. - **Stack**: `[..., e]` -> `[..., e]`; jump to `a0` on a miss, `e` left either way. - **Semantics**: `e` must equal the value in slot `a2` of the mark at depth `a1`, both read through `Datum`: the same object, or equal under `==`. An empty slot is a miss, and so is a `DatumFrame` on either side. - **Compiler form:** Emitted by the match compiler for a back-reference (`SAME`) to a name a scope of the pattern captures. A back-reference whose name no enclosing scope binds always misses.