Re: After retrieving data from DB, the memory doesn't seem to be freed up

[Jonathan Vanasco <suppressed>]

On May 10, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> On 10 May 2007, at 23:48, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> > that also means that variables are sticky -- if you change  
> > something from $a= "b" to $a.= "b"  , you'll see the var appending  
> > b on every iteration
>
> No you don't:
>
>   sub frog {
>       my $x;
>       $x .= 'x';
>       return $x;
>   }

sorry, i should have clarified, I meant that to be:

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package frog;
my $x;

sub leap {
	$x .= 'x';
	return $x;
}

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under a normal perl process, $x is declared on every application run
under a persistent process, $x is declared on startup

// Jonathan Vanasco

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