Re: References to hash elements?

[email protected] (Simon Cozens)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Clites:
> But here what I'm copying is the _contents_ of the hash slot.

True, but irrelevant. :)

> And here I'm not making a copy, but also the thing I'm taking a 
> reference to is not the same thing I copied above. Here, it's a 
> reference to a hash slot.

No, it isn't. It's a reference to a PMC. The fact that that PMC happens
to be pointed to by a hash key is incidental. It's still just another PMC.
No special case at all.

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