On Sun Jan 08 14:21:34 2012, sprout wrote: ................................ > Taking a reference to $_ twice should not create references to two > different variables. The implementation details are leaking through. > I'll add my PerlMonks discussion to this http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=941973 . PADTMPs should always be copied (or sv body stolen ??), not referenced. srefgen/S_refto and newRV do different things but they should be the same. PADTMPs are supposed to be allocated and dealloced on block enterance/leaving, but under the hood are effectively closures or C function level static. Its a mess.Thread Previous | Thread Next