I point out immediatly that I have NFI about these kind of
internals, but I certainly wonder or boggle at the refcount.
Now when I execute this code on linux p5.6.1, I get that same value for refcount , 2147483634.
So just for the hell of it, did the same on IRIX , and all the 'autovivified' but
empty elements have 2147483566 as their refcount.
This will probably never effect how I code perl in the slightest, but now I just HAVE
to know - WTF? , what is this magic number all about? How is it different accross architectures ? (ok that's
a bit of a dud question, since most numbers get handled differently) .. but eh!?
submersible_toaster floats off to try and make 2 billion odd references to $i='JAPH';
Update: ++ everyone , nice explanation MarkM.