[1169] Found the missing .prove contents.

[Ovid]

--- On Fri, 22/8/08, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:

> From: Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>

> App::Prove::State used to commit the updated state in its
> DESTROY  
> method - but I think I remember that reference counts are
> ignored  
> during global destruction - and the state object
> doesn't get a chance  
> to go out of scope before global destruction. So we were
> losing the  
> App::Prove::State::Result /before/ the App::Prove::State.

Makes sense to me.  I've been bitten by DESTROY problems several times.  It was particularly fun the time that a DBI object went out of scope before its container and valid changes were rolled back.  That was FUN to debug :(

Cheers,
Ovid
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