From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:33:40 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldelta for #89544, nested closure leak
X-Git-Tag: v5.17.2~215
X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/c95d4104a200d38171f815ac2c4363e12b5ccfdf

perldelta for #89544, nested closure leak
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index bac2a71..b14f415 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -380,6 +380,13 @@ During parsing, subs declared after errors no longer leave stubs
 
 C<do $file> now clears C<$@> after an I/O error [perl #113730].
 
+=item *
+
+Closures containing no string evals no longer hang on to their containing
+subroutines, allowing variables closed over by outer subroutines to be
+freed when the outer sub is freed, even if the inner sub still exists
+[perl #89544].
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Known Problems