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$tricky stays alive as long as there is a reference to it, all the way up until perl exits. Here is another circular reference, a self-referential variable, it lives even after its inaccessible
Well, you could use trickery like PadWalker to get at $TRICKIEST, but that is cheating :) See Tutorials: Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics, Coping with Scoping Mini-Tutorial: Perl's Memory Management Memory leaks and circular references, Circular references and Garbage collection., make perl release memory In reply to Re^3: Scope of lexical variables in the main script
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