My contribution: perl -e 'sub DESTROY { warn "Too late for regrets" } $_=bless []' It's disappointingly explicit though. I'd like to see it done without an explicit bless and/or assignment. -- Adam Rice -- wysiwyg@glympton.airtime.co.uk -- Blackburn, Lancashire, England ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe