First up, no offence taken at all.

It would appear I'm missing something, but I don't know what it is.

I followed your link to state (in the node I responded to and again here). That's just a Super Search for the keyword 'state'. Nothing immediately useful there as far as I can see; I initially just shrugged it off as a typo, assuming you'd meant it to point to the state doco, i.e. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/state.html. So, perhaps your link should point elsewhere - and that's the bit I'm missing.

The only other thing I can think of is that you did want $closure in 

sub x1 { state $closure ... }
sub x2 { state $closure ... }

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to reference to same variable. Or, at least, different syntax (or something) to achieve that sort of result.

— Ken

In reply to Re^6: Experimental features: autoderef vs postfix deref by kcott
in thread Experimental features: autoderef vs postfix deref by stevieb

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