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+// NOTE: Might change, but this is the current state of things
+x = 10
+t = thread(() {
+    sleep(0.25)
+    println(x.to_string())
+})
+// if this was x = 20 instead, the thread would still be using the old x = 10 value.
+&x = 20
+t.await()
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