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I was under the impression that it was quite easy to write a function in Perl which expects some of its arguments to be functions, and then generates a new function to return.

In fact I do exactly that quite often, and I am positive that you know how I do it. So I suspect we are talking past each other and mean different things.

Could you explain in more detail what you would want Perl to do which it doesn't?

In reply to Re (tilly) 2: Why Closures? by tilly
in thread Why Closures? by mothra

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