Sorry if I seemed rude, I didn't mean to cause any offence.

My reference to references (ha!) was in the context of the previous reply. I hope that helps change the tone a little (without that, it does seems ruder to me).

I don't understand how you got the results you did with strict on, this code fails to execute for me (compilation error):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my @dereferenced_array = @{results};
print "not reached\n"; # doesn't execute
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perl 5.8.8, linux.