Does anyone have any idea why the DESTROY block is not hit in the following example when $foo falls out of scope? If you comment out the line in the nested subroutine, everything works as expected. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
 
{
  package Foo;
 
  $Foo::DCALLS = 0;
 
  sub new { bless {}, shift; }
 
  sub DESTROY {
    $Foo::DCALLS++;
    warn "DESTROY CALLED";
  }
}
 
{
  my $foo = Foo->new;
  sub {
    print "FOO: $foo\n";
    sub {
       print "FOO: $foo\n"; # comment this out and the destructor is c
+alled
    };
  };
}
 
END {
  print "DCALLS: $Foo::DCALLS\n";
}

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