in reply to state is the root of evil?

The problem I have with state is that I usually don't want the variable to be set only once, but only once for a given part of the data . It behaves this way only in anonymous subs, because you declare a new sub for each iteration. Cf.
#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature 'state'; sub frobnicate { state $f = 0; $f += shift; $f } my @data = ( [ 1, 1, 1 ], [ 1, 2, 3 ], [ 4, 4, 4 ], ); for my $block (@data) { my $block_result = 0; for my $element (@$block) { $block_result = frobnicate($element); } print $block_result, "\n"; } print "Versus\n"; for my $block (@data) { my $frobnicate = sub { state $f = 0; $f += shift; $f }; my $block_result = 0; for my $element (@$block) { $block_result = $frobnicate->($element); } print $block_result, "\n"; }

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