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in reply to Re^9: Shouldn't references be readonly? (updated)
in thread Shouldn't LITERAL references be readonly? (updated)

Put differently, you want to prevent transformation of references, but using a completely ineffective tool to achieve it. Making references read-only doesn't prevent transformation.

Preventing transformation (stringification, numification, but not booleanification) of references might be a good idea.

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