package The::Package {
    use Carp;
    use base "Exporter";
    BEGIN { our @EXPORT = qw( my_generator foo takes_coderef ) };
    
    my $scratchpad;
    sub my_generator (&) {
        $scratchpad = {};
        shift->();
        my $tmp = $scratchpad;
        undef $scratchpad;
        return $tmp;
    }

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Just when I thought I was getting the hang of Perl..! I had no idea a my package variable would work like this.

I'm amazed at the elegance of this, and that you came up with this rather instantaneously. Thank you!

In reply to Re^2: Making lexically-scoped ref available to non-OO subs in another package by wanna_code_perl
in thread Making lexically-scoped ref available to non-OO subs in another package by wanna_code_perl

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