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I would reference count and put a closure around my $counter.

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Re^2: Garbage collected class attributes with inside out classes.
by kyle (Abbot) on Mar 02, 2007 at 03:02 UTC

    This sounds simple, but I still don't know what you mean. Could you show code for this?

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      Just that I'd limit the counter variable to the routines that need it; so it seems that the variable doesn't exist in parts of your class that are outside the scope created by the outermost brackets below. 
      {
    my $count;  # Number of class instances that exist.

    sub BUILD {
        ++$count;
        #
    }

    sub DEMOLISH {
        --$count;
        #
    }
}

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