About perl closure.

I have little idea about what are closures for perl?
Is it just a function maker that returns a reference of subroutine?

Could anybody tell me what it is and show me some examples?

Thanks in advance!

Re: About perl closure.

"pswd" wrote:

> I have little idea about what are closures for perl?
> Is it just a function maker that returns a reference of subroutine?
>
> Could anybody tell me what it is and show me some examples?

perldoc -q closure

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Re: About perl closure.

"pswd" wrote:
> I have little idea about what are closures for perl?
> Is it just a function maker that returns a reference of subroutine?

I think the thing that makes a code-ref a "closure" is that any
enclosing-scoped lexical variables appearing in them have their ref-counts
incremented, and thus can't be freed until after the closure itself is
destroyed.

>
> Could anybody tell me what it is and show me some examples?

try perldoc -q closure

Xho

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