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in thread Modifying values by reference: what works and what doesn't

That's actually what I've meant ;) Though I'm not a native speaker, so I may have screwed it up a byte. I meant it copies the contents of the scalar, the reference. That results in a second reference (in counting refcounts) to the same address.

Sorry to confuse, if I have :)
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