Here's some example usage; the references shouldn't in "doSomething" go away when you go out of it's (sub doSomething)'s scope?

use MyObject;

# --------------------------------
# main.pl
# --------------------------------


my $object = undef;

$object = new MyObject;

$object->fillIt();

doSomething($object->A);


sub doSomething
{
    my $arrayReference = shift;
    
    foreach my $hashReference (@$arrayReference)
    {
        # do something
    }
}

$object->cleanUp();

exit 0;
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so you are saying:

@a = ();
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will clean up all the hashreferences in @a?