in reply to Re: Scope and references
in thread Scope and references

It's not a question of not being bothered. It's doing it the way to indicate both references refer to the same variable.

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Re^3: Scope and references
by 7stud (Deacon) on Jun 20, 2011 at 08:15 UTC
    Touche! In other words, if Dumper just displayed the same thing for the second element as the first element, you wouldn't know whether they were the same array or whether they were different arrays with identical content. ++
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