Is an anonymous sub the right thing here?

A named subroutine will work (its what you want), just give it a prefix of "_", make it sub _private_by_convention { ... }

This signals to all who load your module not to rely on sub _private_by_convention because its not part of the public api

I thought this was mentioned in See perlstyle, perlstyle but its not, it is however mentioned in Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs and Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateSubroutines

Yes, too much indentation isn't exactly skimmable code :)

Also, "Code reuse question" has got two stopwords ("code" and "question"), all nodes of type perlquestion are questions about code :) see How do I compose an effective node title?

I don't have a much better

In reply to Re: Code reuse question (indent another level or non global subroutine or anonymous or sub _private_by_convention) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Indent, anonymous sub, or lexical sub for module private code? by 1s44c

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