Re: Please shoot down this GC idea...

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:38:58AM -0800, Damien Neil wrote:
>   sub do_stuff { ... }
> 
>   {
>     my $fh = IO::File->new("file");
>     do_stuff($fh);
>   }
> 
> In this code, the compiler can determine that $fh has no active
> references at the end of the block

No, it can't, but it can certainly put a *test* for not having references
there.

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