True enough. I more meant the mental tangle that you can get in if you think of a reference to an array as being the same as the scalar that holds the reference. On face value its an obvious distinction, but I think people often get confused when scalars and scalar references get involved. For instance (and I know you know this one) how many variables are there in the following code

my ($x,$y);
$x=\$y;
$y=\$x;
my $aref=[$x,$y];
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Anyway. :-)

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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}