My last question, rephrased to be direct-to-the-point: Multi-part howto, or STFU if it's not possible request:
- create a scalar to contain the memory address of a reference to a complex data structure - store ONLY the memory address using 'Storable' (or some other mechanism) - create a cyclical reference within the data structure - let everything referring to the data structure go out of scope - exploit the fact that Perl GC can't delete this memory allocation (that is, without 'weaken') - re-create the reference to the data structure into a scalar, by lifting the memory address from disk using 'Storable' (or some other mechanism) - use the original data. Steve
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