once the namespace has gone out of scope, the variables are all cleared. if you're talking about CGI scripts, Perl's internal garbage collection cleans out the namespace when the script exits ( since all variables have gone out of scope, i.e. no references to them.)

i've always just used  undef $foo when i've needed to explicitly blow away an instance of a variable.

you can always just re-assign values. coding  $foo = 'blalal'; after $foo gets a value is appropriate.

if you need to blow away a namespace in the middle of a script i suspect there's something lacking in the design ( esp. if variable re-assignment doesn't fit the task).

UPDATE: merlyn has corrected me on terminology. namespaces don't go out of scope. variables in a namespace go out of scope.

In reply to RE: Clearing a namespace by geektron
in thread Clearing a namespace by markguy

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