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Devel::GlobalDestruction(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Devel::GlobalDestruction(3)

NAME
       Devel::GlobalDestruction - Provides function returning the equivalent of "${^GLOBAL_PHASE} eq 'DESTRUCT'" for older perls.

SYNOPSIS
	   package Foo;
	   use Devel::GlobalDestruction;

	   use namespace::clean; # to avoid having an "in_global_destruction" method

	   sub DESTROY {
	       return if in_global_destruction;

	       do_something_a_little_tricky();
	   }

DESCRIPTION
       Perl's global destruction is a little tricky to deal with WRT finalizers because it's not ordered and objects can sometimes disappear.

       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.

       For these constructors you can avoid the mess by simply bailing out if global destruction is in effect.

EXPORTS
       This module uses Sub::Exporter::Progressive so the exports may be renamed, aliased, etc. if Sub::Exporter is present.

       in_global_destruction
	   Returns true if the interpreter is in global destruction. In perl 5.14+, this returns "${^GLOBAL_PHASE} eq 'DESTRUCT'", and on earlier
	   perls, detects it using the value of "PL_main_cv" or "PL_dirty".

AUTHORS
       Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

       Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

       Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>

       Peter Rabbitson <ribasushi@cpan.org>

       Arthur Axel 'fREW' Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>

       Elizabeth Mattijsen <liz@dijkmat.nl>

       Greham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>

COPYRIGHT
	   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.

perl v5.18.2							    2013-11-01					       Devel::GlobalDestruction(3)