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DESTROY this

As with the other types of ties, this method will be called when the tied handle is about to be destroyed. This is useful for debugging and possibly for cleaning up.

    sub DESTROY {
        print "</shout>\n";
    }

Source: what's new for perl5.004
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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