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Say you have a complicated method and you want to have an embedded subroutine there, that won't be visible elsewhere - like Pascal or D allow. No problem - you make a lexical code reference:

my $func = sub { my ($param1, $param2) = @_; do { foo }; return $bar; }

Then you call this subroutine like this:

$func->($something, $otherthing);

But what if you want this subroutine to be recursive? Inside its body, the $func variable isn't defined yet (right hand side of assignment is evaluated first), so you can't just say

my $func = sub { do { something }; $func->($param1, $param2); }

The solution is obvious - you have to add a parameter to the function where you'll pass itself:

my $func = sub { my ($func, $param1, $param2) = @_; do { something }; $func->($func, $param1, $param2); }

Of course you'll then have to adapt the first call as well:

$func->($func, $something, $otherthing);

In reply to private recursive subroutines by Sixtease

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