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> [abigail@arenanetworks.com - Tue May 30 09:25:02 2000]:
>
> This is a bug report for perl from abigail@arena-i.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
>
>
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> [Please enter your report here]
>
> This might be related to my previous report.
>
> Consider the following program:
>
> #!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
>
> sub new {
> my ($class, $code) = @_;
> bless $code => $class;
> }
>
> DESTROY {
> print "In DESTROY...\n";
> }
>
> my $i = "Hello";
> my $exit = main -> new (sub {}); # 1)
>
> __END__
>
> This will not print anything at all, indicating that the DESTROY
> method
> isn't called when $exit goes out of scope - not even on program
> termination.
>
> If we change 1) such that new() is called with a closure, for instance
> by changing it to:
>
> my $exit = main -> new (sub {$i}); # 1)
>
> DESTROY is called as soon as $exit goes out of scope.
>
>
This problem still exists in bleadperl.
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