Antoon Pardon enlightened us with:
> I would expect a result consistent with the fact that both times b.a
> would refer to the same object.
"b.a" is just a name, not a pointer to a spot in memory. Getting the
value associated with that name is something different from assigning
a new value to that name.
Sybren
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