Depends whether you want to be able to use your global objects from within your END block or not, eh? This was argued back and forth on p5p quite a bit, I think.

I prefer to code like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# use other modules here
# global variables here
exit(  main( @ARGV )  );
# subroutines here
sub main {
    my $object= Widget::->new();
    # more code here
    return 0;
}

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so that I don't have an objects in global variables and I don't have to remember to undef things.

A much worse problem, IMHO, is that once you get into the global destruction phase, objects are destroyed in some arbitrary order so that Z can be destroyed before X even if X holds a reference to Z. This means that X's destructor may find undef where it expects a reference to Z. This really sucks to me.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re2: Weird perl behavior regarding unloading class modules by tye
in thread Weird perl behavior regarding unloading class modules by Anonymous Monk

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