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Also I agree that matrices generally don't contain matrices, though it'd be nice to support something analogous to this sort of notation:  The elements...

Before change, memory use grew linearly over time. After change, memory use was constant. I'm not just throwing stuff at the wall. This is correct.

By setting SCR_DEBUG_OPTS to 2 and watching memory increase, and then making this change and watching memory not increase.

You don't have to use a variable for this, strings literals of the same value won't be duplicated in the binary AFAIK.