The scope in which the variable exists ceases to exist long before the function was called. The function definitely references an out-of-scope variable.
Yes. What's your point here? I don't think I claimed the function doesn't.

Let me requote doug:

Any block that creates scoped variables is a closure in my book.
And the block discussed here is the following posted by rovf: 
{ # closure starts here
  my $shared_variable;
  sub ref_test1 { ... }
  sub ref_test2 { ... }
}

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Or are you going to retract your retraction about the outer block being a closure?
You seem to think nesting a named sub is the same as nesting blocks
Where did you get that idea from? Why does that even matter in my argument with doug that a closure is something else than just a block giving scope to a variable?

In reply to Re^10: Unable to declare local variable with "use strict". by JavaFan
in thread Unable to declare local variable with "use strict". by mr_p

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