I was seriously confused about this. After a bit of
debugging I figured it out though. Here is a simple
example that shows what is going on:
my $test = sub {bless {}};
$test->();
$test->();
$test->();
sub DESTROY {
print "Calling DESTROY\n";
die "But you won't see this message\n";
}
See it?
DESTROY is called in an eval. Since my code was only
putting out output within a confess, that
output was trapped. So I saw nothing, the script kept on
going, and I thought that DESTROY wasn't being called.
When in fact it is...
Mystery solved. :-)
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|