From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:29:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Perl gurus: why do we need Scalar::Util?
Message-ID: <20060710142916.GX29115@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <86k66lsi5q.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:28:49PM CEST, I got a letter
where "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> said that...
> While that syntax looks like it would make things easier in theory, in
> practice it is a source of leak-after-leak because it creates a closure for
> the two blocks, and that can easily lead to a circular reference for
> long-running tools.

Care to elaborate, please? All I've found are several mentions that the
problem is there, but not what the problem actually is and it doesn't
occur to me why is it a problem.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.
Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam