Some of this flew right over/around my head, but your point seems to be avoiding a call to DESTROY for the original class- so you re-bless them into a class whose purpose it is to recycle the object, then discard of it appropriately. Is this the same as subclassing it to override the DESTROY method, or is there extra niftiness that I'm missing?

Writing such a class would require co-maintaining it with the parent class if you break encapsulation (as merlyn points out) but if that's not a problem, sounds good. I am interested in seeing a less contrived example of what you suggest.

"One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for the myriad instances and applications?"
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

In reply to Re^3: Re-blessing || Re-constructing objects by blogical
in thread Re-blessing || Re-constructing objects by blogical

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