in reply to Am I mistaken about Moose 'DEMOLISH'?

Strange, works fine for me.

$ cat Foo.pm package Foo; use Moose; sub DEMOLISH { print STDERR "I R GONE\n"; } 1; __END__ $ perl -MFoo -e 'my $f = Foo->new; print qq{\$f is $f\n}; $f = undef;' $f is Foo=HASH(0xa073a8) I R GONE

Moose 0.65, Class::MOP 0.76, perl 5.8.8 on OS X 10.5.6.

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