note erikharrison <p>Let me give it a shot.</p> <p>First off, let me make sure I understand. You have a reference to an object, and you are dereferencing that ref in print statements, wondering whats going on, right?</p> <p>If you have a reference to an object, then the destruction of that reference will not invoke a call to a DESTROY method, only the objects actual destruction will. The objects destruction will occur in a pass before destruction of anything else. If you have a reference to an object, and the object is destroyed first (which it should be) the the reference points to nothing - undef. If the the scalar holding the reference to the object is itself undefed, and the object still exists, then this may be inconsistent with Perl's two pass out-of-the-pool system (where objects go first, so that their DESTROY methods can safely operate on variables in the environment). But, if you simply have a reference to the object, and you dereference that reference, then it should come up undef after global object destruction and before destruction of everything else.</p> <p>Hope that helps.</p> Cheers,<br> Erik <p><b>Update:</b> I just realized this is my 100th post. Yay!</p> 166791 166823