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

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