japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re (tilly) 1: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 10, 2001 at 17:29 UTC
    They form a circular self-reference and so continue to exist forever, but become inaccessible.

    There are debates about whether the next version of Perl should able to eliminate them properly with a garbage collector, but that is still the subject of discussion.

Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by converter (Priest) on Jul 10, 2001 at 17:29 UTC

    and as someone on DALnet #perl said the other day: the good ones confess.

Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by $code or die (Deacon) on Jul 10, 2001 at 18:47 UTC


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Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by lshatzer (Friar) on Jul 10, 2001 at 19:08 UTC
    • they go out of scope
    • they get stuck in an infinate loop
    • they get undefed.
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:40 UTC
    • they get dumped and hope someone remembers the reverse.
    • they accidentally get stringified and can't be restored.
    • they're obfuscated and B::Deparse can't handle it.
    • someone enables strict and they have to adapt or leave.
    • they're locals and you move away.
    • they're deprecated for the next release.
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by delegatrix (Scribe) on Jul 10, 2001 at 19:40 UTC

    . . . they just leave the symbol table.

Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:25 UTC
    ...because Perl is case-sensitive.
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Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jul 10, 2001 at 23:01 UTC
    Sure they do...
    #line 666 "work while debugging" die;
       MeowChow                                   
                   s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die...
by Abigail (Deacon) on Jul 11, 2001 at 03:25 UTC
    • ... they just fade to Python

    -- Abigail

      They just, uh, um, I was going to work Ruby in somehow, but nevermind :)
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