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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-14 23:11:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-14 23:11:05 +0000 |
| commit | 7b8d334a971230040a212bc5038097b3f600a094 (patch) | |
| tree | e0fd6231e06e9b8f7e54aae4cec4ead51585219a /pod/perlref.pod | |
| parent | 6ee623d521a149edc6574c512fa951a192cd086a (diff) | |
| download | perl-7b8d334a971230040a212bc5038097b3f600a094.tar.gz | |
[win32] merge change#897 from maintbranch
p4raw-link: @897 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: f06f9b6fc5a686f0169ee2a91b32d5e7125a44ae
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@974
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlref.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlref.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlref.pod b/pod/perlref.pod index 6aa086088d..51807e2b8d 100644 --- a/pod/perlref.pod +++ b/pod/perlref.pod @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ hashes, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes of functions, and so on. Hard references are smart--they keep track of reference counts for you, automatically freeing the thing referred to when its reference count goes -to zero. (Note: The reference counts for values in self-referential or +to zero. (Note: the reference counts for values in self-referential or cyclic data structures may not go to zero without a little help; see -L<perlobj/"Two-Phased Garbage Collection"> for a detailed explanation. +L<perlobj/"Two-Phased Garbage Collection"> for a detailed explanation.) If that thing happens to be an object, the object is destructed. See L<perlobj> for more about objects. (In a sense, everything in Perl is an object, but we usually reserve the word for references to objects that |