>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> Now when I wish to DESTROY the hash, I need to free the memory Gary> used by the hash, including the two arrays _Links and _Signals. Gary> Am I right in thinking that the arrays, along with the scalars Gary> will be deleted by the garbage collector when the references in Gary> the hash are deleted? You might want to read my column on "Understanding Object Destructors" in <http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/PerlJournal/col04.html>. It's an abridgement of an entire chapter I wrote for "Learning Perl Objects References and Modules", which goes into much greater detail about that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>