Thanks for trying.

Like merlyn says, it's a space optimisation. As a scalar takes as much room as a reference to it would, each typeglob comes with a free scalar. Which is good most of the time, but a little frustrating here :(

Your fix will, at least, get me a bit closer and will presumably remove things like STDOUT from the list.

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