Robert;

You're just trying to goad me into writing that wiki entry on ChucK references, aren't you? :)

I would also like to thank you for this hint in the right direction and making me look over the manual section again. I now see how "sprinkling @ signs" there and there is not "magic fairy dust" (though they did seem like that at the time to Mike and me) but instead worked by creating additional references which helped fight the buggy reference count.

It all looks quite understandable all of a sudden.

One thing that *still* bugs me is something I saw back then that looked roughly like this;

class Foo
{
//loads of stuff
}

fun Foo fooFighter( Foo @ input)
{
//stuff

return something;
}

The bit that still casts its tentacled shadows over my restless nights is the "Foo @ input" thing. Why on earth would we ever do that? There must be a valid reason to it because according to Mike that bit came from Spencer so there must be a reason for it that I simply don't get.

Kas.