Refcounting gone wild?

[Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) @ Pike (-) developers forum]

> set history 0
> object c=Stdio.File();
> _refs(c);
(0) Result: 2
> c=c;
(0) Result: Stdio.File(0, 0, 777 /* fd=-1 */)
> _refs(c);
(0) Result: 2
> c=c;
(0) Result: Stdio.File(0, 0, 777 /* fd=-1 */)
> _refs(c);
(0) Result: 2