Re: Re: Why are closures cool, continued?

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in thread Why are closures cool, continued?

Closure and anonymous sub -- two totally different things! An anonymous sub is a ref to a sub without a name. A closure is any sub (named or not) that refers to lexical variables defined outside of its scope.

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Re:x3 Why are closures cool, continued? by grinder (Bishop) on Jan 19, 2002 at 18:27 UTC
Nearly. An anonymous sub is a sub without a name that can only be accessed via a reference (to that sub). -- `g r i n d e r print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u';`	[reply]

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g r i n d e r print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u';

`g r i n d e r print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u';`