On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:39:41AM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: > cool beans, thanks. wow, perl is neat, but i fear it will make me a > bad c programmer...;)
I think Perl actually made me a better C programmer, but it is sometimes frustrating going down to the level of C. Keep your hand in with XS programming :-) > so i guess there is no concept of stack and heap space when dealing > with perl? Not at the lamguage level. > just that memory will stay allocated as long as there is a way to > reach it? Yes. And occassionally even if there isn't. Perl 5 uses reference counting, and so you have to make your own provisions for destroying circular data structures. > hehe, i can't wait to abuse that fact....;) We don't call it abuse. It's just programming the way you think you should rather than the way the language thinks you should :-) > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:21 am, John W. Krahn wrote: > > Christopher J Bottaro wrote: > > > well when the function goes out of scope, > > > isn't @array deallocated (popped off the stack) and now that reference > > > you returned is pointing to garbage? > > > > No, as long as there is still a reference to the array the data is > > available. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
