It may well be useful; if it is useful, it is as evidence towards the hypothesis that things don't work the way I think they do.

There are a lot of places where anonymous blocks occur in magic being worked by packages. Here's an example from the perldoc for Test::Exception where the throws_ok function uses this:

throws_ok { read_file( 'unreadable' ) } qr/No file/, 'no file';

I'm wondering what throws_ok() receives, where, and how. Yes, I notice the missing comma; this is like a print statement where the first optional param (fd in that case) is not separated by a comma from the regular arguments.

In reply to Re^2: Aren't there code refs as well as function refs? by dd-b
in thread Aren't there code refs as well as function refs? by dd-b

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