In fact, it was diotalevi who taught me that my $f; $f = sub { ... &$f(...) ...}; leaks memory but the Y-combinator version my $g = sub { my $s = shift; ... &$s($s, ...) ... }; my $f = sub { &$g($g, @_) }; does not.

That was when I showed him the Y-combinatored version of a function for pureness (no side-effects). I didn't really need that because the function was global so I could have used side-effects (the memory leak wasn't an issue because it's a garbage-collected language). At that time, I didn't know that it has a practical application in perl because of the reference counting. You can find that implementation here: t2n.olv (source), t2n.pl (compiled to prolog), t2n.sml (compiled to sml), olvashato/ (link to all files).

Btw, diotalevi also claimed that this memory leak issue is described somewhere in Higher Order Perl, but I couldn't find it in that book. I'd be greatful if anyone can point me to the exact place.

In reply to Re^2: private recursive subroutines by ambrus
in thread private recursive subroutines by Sixtease

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