I have an object, "My::Class", that creates objects of a second type "My::Class::Temps", and stores references to these as it is necessary for the first 'collection' object to adjust the Temps as it is changed. Temps is a small class and may be created frequent and only used for a small block of code; once out of scope, there's no way to get back at what that Temps value is.

If I didn't have to store the references to Temps, it's well known that any Temps objects will be destroyed once they go out of scope, but that won't happen in this case. While Temps is small and should not drastically exhaust resources in terms of memory even if thousands are defined, I'd still rather avoid this situation, if not for this particular problem but for future situations of a smilar nature.

As it is right now, I'm providing a function to the end user that allows them to manually clear out the Temps. Icky, I know, but it does allow the end user that might be concered about memory usage to do something about it. If I can resolve this problem now, then I'll since drop this function to a 'do nothing' state for compatibility.

Is there a way to capture the point where an object is going out of scope but not necessarily being deleted, such that special actions can be taken?

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In reply to Catching an object going out of scope by Masem

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