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Postings from December 2004
> > Only in normal destruction. It _cant_ make the guarantee that you say it > does or circular structures would never be broken during global destruction: Yes, you're right. But in this case there is no circular structure. As I mentioned to Christoph Haas, our surprise at this situation might be the result of our misunderstanding of global destruction semantics. I am still willing to admit that, but it also seems to me that the present behavior is unnecessarily bad. > That's why I was suggesting the counter approach. At least then you could > know that the objects would be destroyed in a defined order. I misunderstood your suggestion. Thanks for explaining it. It still seems to me that Perl's final destruction should have a first pass in which objects are destroyed normally, in reference-count-order, followed by a second pass to take care of any remaining circularly-referenced objects. Or alternatively, that the outer object in my example should be destroyed at the end of program execution, but before the global destruction paqhse is initiated.