> Its great that it's already done but the bigger question, to 
> me, is why does it copy a reference in the second example. I 
> don't get it.

In the first example, it's a list of scalars. The scalars are copied. In the
second example, it's a list of anonymous hash references. The references are
copied. And the scalars they refer to are of course one and the same.

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Mark Thomas 
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