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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 |