thinkings on shallow copy

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Kendear:
  [...]
> >>I wonder if it is actually to insert *the same object references*
> >>into the new compound object...
  [...]
> essentially, "same object references" are the same as
> "references to the same objects"... just as
> "character pointer" is the same as "pointer to character"
> in C.

This analogy might hold if "same object references" were parsed as
"(same object) references".  In my dialect, this is simply not so:
it's "same (object references)".  Perhaps your dialect is
different.

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