Perl Programmers Don't Die...

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Re (tilly) 1: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 10, 2001 at 17:29 UTC
They form a circular self-reference and so continue to exist forever, but become inaccessible. There are debates about whether the next version of Perl should able to eliminate them properly with a garbage collector, but that is still the subject of discussion.	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 1: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by japhy (Canon) on Jul 10, 2001 at 17:31 UTC
Sounds like Mattwrightitus. `japhy` -- Perl and Regex Hacker	[reply]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by converter (Priest) on Jul 10, 2001 at 17:29 UTC
and as someone on DALnet #perl said the other day: the good ones confess.	[reply]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by $code or die (Deacon) on Jul 10, 2001 at 18:47 UTC
... they shutdown ... they are exported ... if they are blessed ... they reset $self Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.	[reply]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by lshatzer (Friar) on Jul 10, 2001 at 19:08 UTC
they go out of scope they get stuck in an infinate loop they get undefed.	[reply]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:40 UTC
they get dumped and hope someone remembers the reverse. they accidentally get stringified and can't be restored. they're obfuscated and B::Deparse can't handle it. someone enables strict and they have to adapt or leave. they're locals and you move away. they're deprecated for the next release.	[reply]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by delegatrix (Scribe) on Jul 10, 2001 at 19:40 UTC
. . . they just leave the symbol table.	[reply]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by Anonymous Monk on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:25 UTC
...because Perl is case-sensitive.	[reply]
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Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jul 10, 2001 at 23:01 UTC
Sure they do... `#line 666 "work while debugging" die;` [download] MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by Abigail (Deacon) on Jul 11, 2001 at 03:25 UTC
... they just fade to Python -- Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl Programmers Don't Die... by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 11, 2001 at 08:04 UTC
They just, uh, um, I was going to work Ruby in somehow, but nevermind :)	[reply]
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