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in reply to Ref to a list not being equivalent to a list of refs to each element

I believe you're seeing this behavior because
\("foo");
creates a reference to a temporary value whereas
\"foo";
creates a reference to a constant value. I don't know if that is explicitly documented anywhere, but there you have it.
HTH

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