See above in my reply to btrott. You have provided a great discussion, and have certainly taught me something.

Closures are cool. I've never had any trouble understanding lexical variables within some other block (like a sub). I guess I have never tried to declare a closure at file scope, so I've haven't learned to fear them. It wouldn't have worked for me (at file scope), before today, so I guess the timing is better this way. :-)

Thanks for sharing your knowledge...

Russ