Unwanted circular update of variables

[Colin]

This comes up regularly, most recently a few hours ago. A lot can be learned by watching the forum and trying to at least read all the questions, and following any threads that look interesting.

Issues with variables

Hello everyone, I'm having some problem with basic variables manipulations. Here's a code example that does the issue. let CopyOfOriginal = context.get('CopyOfOriginal') || []; let OriginalObject = { payload:'Im original' } CopyOfOriginal.push(OriginalObject); context.set('CopyOfOriginal', CopyOfOriginal); // Modify after the context.set OriginalObject.payload = 'Im modified'; // Push without context.set CopyOfOriginal.push(OriginalObject); return msg; I'm expecting the CopyOfOrigi…