Re: Re: Re: Re: eval that doesn't exec?

So I can freeze sub ref's and store it, to later retrieval and execution?

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•Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: eval that doesn't exec? by merlyn (Sage) on May 11, 2002 at 18:51 UTC
Not universally. Perl doesn't have enough introspection (yet!) to be able to take a compiled subroutine and reliably marshal it. When you said "stored" originally, I bet most people just presumed "in a scalar", not "in a database". -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]