Oh. Well named subroutines always go into the "package scope" (is there a proper term for this?), so that code corresponds to
use strict;
use warnings;

sub test {
          print ++$i,"\n";
}

sub function {
          my $i = 0;
          test();
          test();
}

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regardless of what you meant it to.

And to be honest, I can live with that. I don't see much of a point to using named subsubroutines - unless you want to pass it around as a reference, in which case you didn't do anything less than you would have had to with an anonymous sub. Right? Of course it is correct to point out that Perl's closures are not exactly equivalent to what is commonly referred to as a closure. (Though I think whether that makes them incomplete is debatable.)

In reply to Re^4: Why are closures cool? by Aristotle
in thread Why are closures cool? by mr.dunstan

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