You won't get memory leaks per se, but you may sometimes get tripped by the somewhat random order of destruction in final cleanup.

This usually only makes a difference if your class data includes objects that have a DESTROY method, eg:

  sub DESTROY {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{dbh}->disconnect if $self->{connected};
  }

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In that example, during global destruction it is possible that $self->{dbh} has been destroyed before this object, in which case you'd get an error in that DESTROY.

I often get around that problem with a simple:

  my $class_data; END { $class_data = undef }

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.. which help to ensure things will be tidied up in an appropriate order by removing the need for perl to guess at a sensible order to destroy things.

Hugo

In reply to Re: "our" versus "my" for class data by hv
in thread "our" versus "my" for class data by mp

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