Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote in perl.perl6.language : > > I would like "is sensitive" to be defined to mean that any data stored > in that variable, at any level of recursion, will be zeroed out as > soon as it is garbage collected. Particular implementations can add > extra features on top of that--such as stopping the VM from swapping > it or even actively encrypting that area of memory--but without a > minimum standard there's no point in supporting the feature at all.
That really sounds like an unportable feature that should go in a module. On in many modules (Linux::VolatileVariables, etc etc)
