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Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

From:
schwern
Date:
February 13, 2001 10:19
Subject:
Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)
Message ID:
20010213131854.B19299@magnonel.guild.net
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:09:11PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> > >"It isn't possible to AUTOLOAD DESTROY." --perlmem(6)
> 
> I'm not sure what that means.  Certainly AUTOLOAD gets
> called if DESTROY is called but not defined ... just
> like any other method.

Yes, its a classic autoloader mistake to accidentally handle DESTROY
calls.

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