Tcl had them already, we're just using upvar under the covers. upvar uses the variable in the stack frame you specify. Which is clever and all but sort of a

Tcl had them already, we're just using upvar under the covers. upvar uses the variable in the stack frame you specify. Which is clever and all but sort of a pain to use so we just did the &this_is_sort_of_a_pointer thing but it's a compiler managed upvar under the covers.