README
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.