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.IX Title "Devel::GlobalDestruction 3"
.TH Devel::GlobalDestruction 3 2023-07-25 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Devel::GlobalDestruction \- Provides function returning the equivalent of
"${^GLOBAL_PHASE} eq \*(AqDESTRUCT\*(Aq" for older perls.
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&    package Foo;
\&    use Devel::GlobalDestruction;
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\&    use namespace::clean; # to avoid having an "in_global_destruction" method
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\&    sub DESTROY {
\&        return if in_global_destruction;
\&
\&        do_something_a_little_tricky();
\&    }
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Perl's global destruction is a little tricky to deal with WRT finalizers
because it's not ordered and objects can sometimes disappear.
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Writing defensive destructors is hard and annoying, and usually if global
destruction is happening you only need the destructors that free up non
process local resources to actually execute.
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For these constructors you can avoid the mess by simply bailing out if global
destruction is in effect.
.SH EXPORTS
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This module uses Sub::Exporter::Progressive so the exports may be renamed,
aliased, etc. if Sub::Exporter is present.
.IP in_global_destruction 4
.IX Item "in_global_destruction"
Returns true if the interpreter is in global destruction. In perl 5.14+, this
returns \f(CW\*(C`${^GLOBAL_PHASE} eq \*(AqDESTRUCT\*(Aq\*(C'\fR, and on earlier perls, detects it using
the value of \f(CW\*(C`PL_main_cv\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`PL_dirty\*(C'\fR.
.SH AUTHORS
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Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
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Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
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Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>
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Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>
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Arthur Axel 'fREW' Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>
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Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl>
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Greham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>
.SH COPYRIGHT
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\&    Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
\&    This program is free software; you can redistribute
\&    it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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