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
