On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:05:26AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> A quick test shows that undefining a subroutine has the annoying habit of
> invalidating any subroutine references you hold.
You can, however, (for package subs) by do
my $cr = *{"main::foo"}{CODE};
since that takes a copy of the coderef stored in the typeglob, and hence
sub foo can be obliterated without it being GC'ed.
This may not be what you want, but it's saved me on a number of occasions.
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