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Though I'm almost certain that's what the OP had in mind, it relies on a bug rather than a documented feaure. For that reason I happen to like this solution to question #5 of the OP's quiz:

sub{my$x=\$x};
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Updated version that creates only one $x:

sub { my $x; $x = \$x; }
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The anonymous sub is created and immediately falls out of existance because it's not passed to a scalar variable. And yet $x never disappears because its reference count is always going to be 1; it refers to itself.

It probably doesn't qualify as a static, and is pretty much useless, but it meets the definition of static that the OP gave.

Dave

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In reply to Re: Re: How's your Perl? by davido
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