Ah. I have found my misremembering. Calling of DESTROY is neither timely nor ordered. Destruction in Perl is timely for lexicals. But, I can't find anything about destruction of localized variables. I would figure that the recovery of the hidden value is timely. But, that doesn't imply that the destruction of the covering value is timely.

I, of course, would love to hear from TimToady, chromatic, or some other guts person. And, frankly, being able to depend on timely destruction would be nice.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^5: Implicit closing of files by dragonchild
in thread Implicit closing of files by rovf

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