Hello fellow monks,

I have run into an issue there are lots of ways around, but those aren't as interesting as the issue itself. I'd like to store subroutines somewhere out of process and later retrieve them for invokation.

Storing the source of the routines and running them through eval later is trivial, but I'd like to store the binary object that the CODE ref points to. I know that this could be much more brittle, not guaranteed to work between Perl versions and host platforms for instance. Nevertheless I'd like to know how to do it.

The modules Storable, FreezeThaw and Data::Dumper all choke (or cheat) on CODE refs. Is this because it can't be done, or just because it shouldn't?

Thanks for your thoughts and if this node is a dupe, please excuse my poor search-fu.

In reply to Serializing code refs by Akhasha

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