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@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ Possibly. The problem here is that of perception. In many languages, heap alloca
 
 ``` nimrod
 proc foo(input: ref T) = ...
-let a: ref T
+let a: ref T = ...
 foo(a)  # valid, this is Java-style
-var b: T
+var b: T = ...
 foo(b)  # also valid and equivalent
-```
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+```
+
+Note that the difference between what happens in Java and what Nim does is simply a matter of efficiency: Nim does not require our `T` to be allocated on the heap.
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