do Perl supoort the use of memory address and pointers

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Re: do Perl supoort the use of memory address and pointers by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Apr 23, 2013 at 11:31 UTC
Well, there’s Pointer ... Like most postmodern languages, Perl has the concept of references (see perlreftut), which are similar to pointers in that they “refer to” other things, but different in that (a) they know what sort of thing they are referring to, and (b) every thing always knows how many references to it currently exist. Furthermore, memory objects are automatically “garbage collected.” You don’t have to free them explicitly.
Re^2: do Perl supoort the use of memory address and pointers by tobyink (Canon) on Apr 24, 2013 at 20:49 UTC
Also of interest: Devel::PeekPoke which (quite shockingly) has a pure-Perl implementation. `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re: do Perl supoort the use of memory address and pointers by Rahul6990 (Beadle) on Apr 23, 2013 at 11:54 UTC
Refer to below link: Refrences By Perl Monks	[reply]
Re: do Perl supoort the use of memory address and pointers by Discipulus (Canon) on Apr 24, 2013 at 07:21 UTC
short answer: no. L* there are no rules, there are no thumbs..	[reply] [d/l]


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