deleting data structs? recursive?

looked up the delete function in perlfunc, and it appears
that deleting values from ENV or a tie, will affect what they
are connected to. 

    This implies, ***I think***(?), that calling
delete on a data structure is 'safe', in that
nested references in structure will be 'released',
recursively, as DESTROY is called on each parent
(clearing/releasing any references the parent had,
thus potentially calling DESTROY on various children
(if they were the last ref).

Is this correct?  It sounds like it is saying that..
but the oddity about deleting array values, being
deprecated -- is that only because assigning undef
would do the same thing (and still releasing storage
if the array element was a reference)...

Just checking...nobody needs to provide a sworn statement,
but trying to make sure I'm not reading things into that
I want to see vs. what are there...

Thanks.

• deleting data structs? recursive? by Linda W
• Re: deleting data structs? recursive? by Jesse Luehrs