That's a gutsy play, japhy. I wonder if anyone has ever tested
untying a value inside a FETCH method on that selfsame value?
If not, I'd run the test under a memory leak detector.
It wouldn't be hard for Perl to leak memory due to
an unexpected circular dependency.
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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan:
Perl,
regex,
and perlhacker, who'd like a (from-home) job s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;