in reply to •Re: Re: Re: Serializing coderefs
in thread Serializing coderefs

Is there a better way? Any reference to the cases where it will fail?

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•Re: Re: ?Re: Re: Re: Serializing coderefs
by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 20, 2002 at 15:09 UTC
    It will fail on this:
    my $increment_by_secret = do { my $secret_number = 7; sub { $secret_number + shift }; };
    It fails because there's no access to $secret_number from outside the coderef, so we can't tell what the "magic constant" should be. All you get is:
    { ($secret_number + shift(@_)); }
    (Just tested.)

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