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in thread Why do I (sometimes) get a REF ref and not a SCALAR ref?

That's what I thought, but choroba's reply implies it's just really fast garbage collection or persistent scratch space. This gets into deeper waters than I'm used to.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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