We are looking at the wrong sequence of events. Calling DESTROY not subsequently involes garbage collector, on the contrary, it is the garbage collector will call the object's DESTROY method, if there is one defined, before it collect the 'garbage'.

(A small quiz for everyone. Does the following two pieces of code cause memory leak? If not sure, test them with some system resourse monitor.)

first one:
while (1) {
   my $variable = \$variable;
}

second piece:
define a class with this new:
sub new {
    my $self = {};
    $self->{"parent"} = $self;
    $self->{"child"} = $self;
    bless $self;
    return $self;
}

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In reply to Re: DESTROYing an object by pg
in thread DESTROYing an object by batkins

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