Re: [perl #10030] DESTROY not called on code reference objects

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes:
> > >     my $y;
> > >     { my $x = bless sub { $y }, 'X'; }
> > >     sub X::DESTROY { print "DESTROYED\n" }
> > Don't document bugs as features.  You will hate yourself in the morning.
> 
> My initial reaction is to disagree.  On second thought, I'm not so
> sure.

My initial reaction is that calling a destructor on a sub that happens
to be a closure and not on one that doesn't is not just an unexpected
special case, but it's surely a bug. Why (and I ask this honestly, not
rhetorically) is it supposed to be so hard to fix?

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