I will try that and report back.
Do you happen to have a list of commits that were made to implement named references? I would like to make a proposal for an alternate specification for named references. Ideally I would like to back it up with an implementation so that interested people can also try it out. A list of commits would help me produce that implementation.
Speaking of specification, is there something more than "named references always expand parameters at the scope in which rname existed when ‘typeset -n’ was called" found in section 14.3.2? Maybe not in the documentation but in messages exchanged during the design and implementation?
Philippe