question regarding reference of a local variable

[Pine Yan]

Hi, what happens to the memory space with the following code:

my @full_list = ();

if (...) {
  my @tmp_list;
  @tmp_list = split(...);
  @full_list = (@full_list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]);
}


Here @tmp_list is a local variable and its definition terminates at the
end of this code segment. Does this mean the
memory space it occupies will be freed, too? If yes, what will happen to
the reference of that variable stored in @full_list?

Thanks.

Sincerely
Pine