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in thread method chaining fails where separate method calls succeed in DBIx::Simple

...you have a circularity, which breaks Perl's reference-counting GC scheme

But isn't this what Scalar::Util::weaken() is for — as (somewhat indirectly) hinted at in the OP ?

(Though I suspect that what Juerd meant with "it's safer to just have a string" is that if you take a copy of a weak ref, the copy will be strong again, which could potentially lead to the problem you mention...)

PS: I'm not the original poster.

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