[Brian]

convergent, can you provide more detail? Select a perspective where? In the perspectives window?

Here's what I tried:
I opened up context view and selected a context in the sidebar. (All were visible, one was selected.)

I then selected "Save window as new perspective" from the perspectives menu. I named the new perspective, switched to another one, selected the one I created, and hit the delete key.

The perspective was deleted, but none of my contexts disappeared. If you could send email to the ninjas with the steps to repro this, we'd definitely want to know about it.

(We do have a feature request open on deletion confirmation - folks that want to see it should use Send Feedback to let the ninjas know, as well.)