You also mention that $log is a global object. By the end of the program, are all references to it explicitly destroyed, or are you relying on Perl to clean it up for you as the main package goes out of scope?

If it's the latter (and you're usually okay doing that, except for when you aren't), you're probably getting tripped up by Perl's unreliable destruction order. Instead of What We All Expect, where objects and variables are cleaned up in reverse order of their creation, there's a mad rush for the exit, and occasionally things get trampled underfoot. Unfortunately, that appears to mean the FileHandle is gone before $log is.

You have two solutions -- move your final log message out of DESTROY, or explicitly undefined the last reference to the $log object before falling off the end of the program.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Objects and undefined values by chromatic
in thread Objects and undefined values by SwellJoe

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