On 6/17/05, Larry Wall <larry@[...].org>  wrote:
>  On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:56:50AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
>  :
>  :     my $x = 3;
>  :     my $y = \$x;
>  :     say $y + 10;
>  :     $y++;
>  :     say $y;
>  :     say $x;
>  :

>  I suspect people will find that counterintuitive.  A more consistent
>  approach might produce
>  
>      13
>      14
>      14
>  
>  That is, if + deferences automatically, so should ++, such that the
>  "thingie" pointed to by both $x and $y is what gets incremented,
>  not a clone of it.  It should take more work than that to get a COW
>  reference, I suspect.

Ok - but where does the assignment come in?  The only change to $y is
in $y++ so I would think the results should be
13
4
4

>  
>  Larry
>  

Cheers,
Joshua
a.k.a. L~R