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Object Oriented Perl-gramming
Destructors

  • A destructor method is simply a member function (subroutine) named DESTROY which will be automatically called

    • When the object reference's variable goes out of scope

    • When the object reference's variable is undef-ed

    • When the script terminates

    • When the perl interpreter terminates

  • For example 
      package MyClass;
...
sub DESTROY
{
    print "   MyClass::DESTROY called\n";
}