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Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?

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No, Perl's garbage collection system takes care of this.

    sub makeone {
        my @a = ( 1 .. 10 );
        return \@a;
    }

    for $i ( 1 .. 10 ) {
        push @many, makeone();
    }

    print $many[4][5], "\n";

    print "@many\n";

Source: Perl FAQ: Programming Tools
Copyright: Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.

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