Destruction happens at the end of scope not file.

Try to put curlies around the code excluding the END.

In other words make sure the variables are in another scope than the END block.

UPDATE

Tested, doesn't work with your code!

BUT the problem is your circular reference.

It means that a normal destruction can't happen because the ref-count keeps up.

We are talking here about the garbage collection at the very end of a Perl script..

UPDATE
(on exit Perl 5 does a mark and sweep to reclaim circular references.)

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^3: is there a way to ensure some code is the last thing that is run? (updated garbage collection) by LanX
in thread is there a way to ensure some code is the last thing that is run? by morgon

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