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> On 16 Mar 2020, at 10:38, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>=20
> that said, after muy share of mp programming i would not have thought =
about the text y as pass by reference, also because it's only true for =
these pseudo arrays (maybe suffixes also work)


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