in reply to Know Your Garbage -- A Quiz

I say
one
three
five
two
four
Why?
  • Weell $one is sure to go first.
  • $three is sure to go right after $four is created.
  • "five" is sure to be printed before $four (or $two) gets cleaned up. I'm not sure the order in which $four and $two will be destroyed (because perl doesn't guarantee order of destruction), but I vaguely recall something about closures going away last, so that's why i'm going with that answer.

    update2: er, actually, forget what i said about closures. two goes before four because the closure is invoked (duh). So I guessed right, but by the time I got to writing down why, things got fuzzy :)(i rushed)

update: I just checked on my perl v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (ActivePerl Build 638), and I guessed correctly :)

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