Hi, I got a strange issue I would like to share, in the following code: 
package H;
sub DESTROY { print "DESTROY\n"; }

sub new { my $class = shift; bless {}, $class; }

{
    if(my $h = H->new()) {
        print "IN\n";
    }
    print "\$h out of scope\n";
}
print "why now?\n";
_____

IN
$h out of scope
DESTROY
why now?

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why DESTROY is called after the outer { } ? after the if() block $h is no longer reachable, so why still holds a reference to the blessed instance?

Oha

edit: This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi

In reply to if(my) scope by oha

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