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Of course, I guess this is sortof how it works, in that \$x must figure out the address of x and return it so in a way it almost acts like a function.
No, this is Perl, not C. A reference is a reference, and not a pointer. There are pointers involved in the internals, but pointers are used for other scalar types as well.

Abigail

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