More questions for those who are patient without limits: Refrencing a scalar as in ref($contents) when evaluated as a string, will return 'CODE' if it points to a subroutine?

Part of my problem is my reasoning tells me I can't precompile all code because this is evolutionary code - there is no way for the compiler to know what it is going to do before it does it.

However, we are no longer evaling, we are refrencing subs recursively. This may complicate structure parsing for reporting but maybe . . . . maybe I'm just resisting the shortest path. Thanks for the example, I'll take a crack at the rest of this....

Thanks again.

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