For completeness, See Also

Tutorials: Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics,
Coping with Scoping , Mini-Tutorial: Perl's Memory Management,
Lexical scoping like a fox,
Read this if you want to cut your development time in half!,
Closure on Closures , perlref#Circular References,
Memory leaks and circular references,
Circular references and Garbage collection.,
make perl release memory,
about memory management , Re^3: Scope of lexical variables in the main script , Re: What's the weaken here for?,
Devel::Cycle,
Devel::NYTProf,
Devel::Leak Devel::LeakTrace,
WeakRef

In reply to Re: Why does Perl allow you to return array references to variables in local scope? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Why does Perl allow you to return array references to variables in local scope? by MrSnrub

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