That's a clarification, but regardless it is quite irrelevant to what we're discussing I think (or what I want to discuss).
It's relevant to the concept of what a reference happens to be. Of course if you are not interested in learning that or discussing it, than there's no reason to talk about it.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here.
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