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On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:38:02AM -0800, Nick Wellnhofer via RT wrote: > Right, but it would solve a large class of cases. But has just been pointed out, freeing package vars before calling destructors breaks everything. > Also note that Perl seems to do the right thing for "my" variables with > package scope. Only for "our" variables, it seems impossible to get a > sane destruction order. file-scoped lexical variables are freed (or rather their reference count is decreased) when execution falls off the end of the file or eval or whatever. This is a well-defined point *before* global destruction. They are also closed over by subs such as destructors, so will continue to live if they are needed. Package variables have no such concepts (well, subs tend to have ops that hold a reference count to the gobs that hold the package vars, so in that sense they close over package vars). -- Standards (n). Battle insignia or tribal totems.Thread Previous | Thread Next