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"Peter C. Norton" <spacey@inch.com> writes: > From the docs for one of the perl modules (the postscript > thingamajig, I think) there are circumstances under which the perl > interpreter can't reclaim memory used by objects that have circular > references. It can't do so _automatically_. Objects which know they're going to contain circular structures need to explicitly break the circularity in their destructors.