Re^2: Passing a list as a subroutine's return value ( list of HTML::Element objects )

Thanks.

How can one tell when a 'new' variable is somehow connected to another?

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Re^3: Passing a list as a subroutine's return value ( list of HTML::Element objects ) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 27, 2023 at 14:01 UTC
In general, you don't have to worry about that. As long as you hold a reference, the object will be kept alive. But you called a function which frees the tree including all of its nodes, which it does by hollowing out any existing references to its nodes.	[reply]