in reply to Re^3: Overloading different instances differently.
in thread Overloading different instances differently.

The long-time standard module Symbol to the rescue. Just change undef %Foo::; to delete_package('Foo');.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Symbol 'delete_package'; my $s; print "Creating functions\n"; my $x = TellDestroy->new(sub {print $s}, "variable sub"); *Foo::function = TellDestroy->new(sub {print $s}, "glob sub"); print "Clearing variable\n"; undef $x; print "Clearing glob\n"; delete_package('Foo'); print "Exiting\n"; package TellDestroy; use Scalar::Util qw(refaddr); my %function_name; sub new { my ($class, $self, $name) = @_; $function_name{refaddr($self)} = $name; bless $self, $class; } sub DESTROY { my $self = shift; my $name = delete $function_name{ refaddr($self) }; print STDERR "$name is going away\n"; } __END__ Name "Foo::function" used only once: possible typo at ... Creating functions Clearing variable variable sub is going away Clearing glob glob sub is going away Exiting

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