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Since it used to work like you (and me) suggest in 5.6, I suppose some aspects of "constant folding" and/or "reference counting" changed slightly in between.

Maybe due to another bugfix? Who knows...

Anyway, IMHO the docs should be updated to be clearer in this respect.

Cheers Rolf

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