Dear Monks,

yet another puzzle which has been occupying my thoughts for a while, is it (considered) bad practice for a package to store references to its objects somewhere? For example: 

package Foo;
use strict;
use warnings;

my %objects;

sub new
  {
  my $class = shift;
  my $self = {};
  bless($self, $class);
  $objects{$self} = *some vitally important information*;
  return $self;
  }

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The consequence of this would be that the code creating the Foo object cannot simply dereference it to invoke destruction. Obviously good documentation and a special method to get rid of objects is all it takes to circumvent the issue, but my question is still: is this "not done"?

I'd very much appreciate to hear your insights.

Remember rule one...

In reply to Storing object references internally by Forsaken

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