On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:40:45PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 05:55 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote: > >It's pretty hard (for me) to think of when you'd want an AUTOLOADed DESTROY, > >since if you create /any/ objects of the class, DESTROY will be called. > >"It isn't possible to AUTOLOAD DESTROY." --perlmem(6) > > A nice quote. Alas one not in my docs... There's one in my head (no idea if it's in the docs or the p5p archives) to the effect of creating a stub DESTROY function (ie sub DESTROY {} ) may be a speedup because it stops AUTOLOAD being invoked to search for one. Nicholas Clark