in reply to Setting a variable equal to a reference

I'm more interested in the discussion I hope to provoke in order to better understand perl's internal plumbing.
Devel::Peek might be of interest. It lets you examine the reference count and other internal properties of scalars and other data types.
It refers to perlguts
Also, try index-internals
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