Particularly, I'd like to be able to detect if the current sub was called from within a control block.

For example, I wrote an operator called findone which operates like grep, returning the first match and optionally the index of the match lazily.

I know I could do this with a iterative closure but I wanted it to be like a built-in. So I saved the args for the call in a hash with a key of caller() = ref. This almost works. The problem is that if it is not called in a control block (Example 2.) it will fail after the last match as there is no context to know that we shouldn't save state. Obviously there are other ways to accomplish this, but I would think there is probably other applications of this type of context info. 

# Example: findone { coderef } @array
# Example 1.   WORKS
while (my ($el,$index)  = findone { m/good/ } @potentially_huge_array)
+{
    # Found match in $el do something.
}

# Example 2.   DOESN"T WORK
my @tokens = (tokens here);

while ($line =<>){
    chomp($line);
    die "$line is not a valid token" unless findone { m/^$line/ } @tok
+ens;
    # Fails after all elements have been processed and will always fai
+l from now on.
}

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