This came from a coworker. Consider this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $foo = { c => {} };
my $records = [ $foo ];
$records->{c} = 1;
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What happens when this is run?

[jon@opiate jon]$ ./foo.pl 
Out of memory!
[jon@opiate jon]$ perl --version

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux
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Why is this?

BlueLines

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Edit kudra 2002-02-23 Added to title