--- Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unless I'm misunderstanding you that's not true.
> When a value's
> > reference count goes to zero the memory is freed -
> at least to Perl
> > if not to the OS.
>
> No, it's not. I know it's counter-intutive, but
> this is a feature of
> Perl, and the behavior has been discussed and
> confirmed a number of
> times, both on this list and on perlmonks.org.
>
> - Perrin
>
hm. lexical variable release memory to perl. but
reference doesn't..
can someone confirm on this or pass a link related to
it?
James.
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