Dear Monks,

According to "Intermediate Perl 2nd":

1) DESTROY is like other method calls: Perl starts at the class of the object and works its way up the inheritance hierarchy until it finds a suitable method. However, unlike other method calls, there's no error if Perl doesn't find a suitable method. (p. 140)

2) So, the rule is:
Always include a call to $self->SUPER::DESTROY in our destructors (even if we don't yet have any base/parent classes). (p. 145)

However I get an error when I run this code:

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

{package B;

    sub new {
        my $class = shift;
        bless {}, $class;
    }
    
    sub DESTROY {
        my $self = shift;
        
        say "destroy";
        $self->SUPER::DESTROY;
    }

}
--output:--
(in cleanup) Can't locate object method "DESTROY" via package "B" at C
+:\Users\Me\Documents\perl2.pl line 17.
destroy

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In reply to DESTROY problem by 7stud

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