> Except you mean undef, right? There is no null in Perl. Even so, though,
> undef does not call object destructors (i.e., DESTROY method), only
> decrements the reference count, which hopefully means it wil get garbage
> collected.
well, $SQL = null;
compiles and produces the results described.
undef would probably work as well
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