Making sure an array reference to a property stays up-to-date?

programming flash
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Consider this for a second:

theState.stateGrowth = 0;
globalVariablesArray.push(theState.stateGrowth);

trace(globalVariablesArray[0]); // traces 0

theState.stateGrowth--;

trace(globalVariablesArray[0]); // still traces 0

Is there anyway to make it so that globalVariablesArray[0] always contains the ‘new’ value of theState.stateGrowth, even if it changes? In other words, store the property itself in the array, not just the value of it?

Thanks.