Thanks for responding. The reason I Thought that delete and die might work is that die is in the documentation as an internal method (so I thought it was worth a try) and I seen delete used in the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder (so I thought that it may be a method that is common to all perl objects in the same way that there is a set of methods that are inherited by all Java objects from Java's object class). Gibberish was a control on my experiment, as i did not expect it to be defined at all for anything.

I assume this is a misunderstanding as for the sharing objects between programs. I do not want to do this I just want to call routines from another file and have them return objects (with the added benefit of having a reference to that object in the caller and callee file). This will work in java and is done pretty much as I described. If the code that I provided is saying something else, let me know, I do want to improve my perl understanding

Again thanks for your time

In reply to Re^2: Memory Managment with Subroutines and Objects by Anonymous Monk
in thread Memory Managment with Subroutines and Objects by Anonymous Monk

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