Add the line:

sub DESTROY {}

to the Chatbot::Eliza code to fix the warning. For some background on DESTROY see Object scope and DESTROY

From perlman:perltoot:

Destruction happens automatically via Perl's garbage collection (GC) system, which is a quick but somewhat lazy reference-based GC system. To know what to call, Perl insists that the destructor be named DESTROY. Perl's notion of the right time to call a destructor is not well-defined currently, which is why your destructors should not rely on when they are called.

Evidently autoflush is altering when DESTROY is called. I recall reading somewhere that you should include a DESTROY() method to avoid warnings like this but can't remember where for the life of me.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: autoflush and 'DESTROY' by tachyon
in thread autoflush and 'DESTROY' by Chady

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