I am reading thru the code in the Web::Scraper module, and don't understand how the imported subroutine named scraper is returning a Web::Scraper object.

In Web/Scraper.pm you have this 

sub import {
    ...
    *{"$pkg\::scraper"} = _build_scraper($class);
}

sub _build_scraper {
    my $class = shift;
    return sub(&) {
        my($coderef) = @_;
        bless { code => $coderef }, $class;
    };
}

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I get that scraper executes _build_scraper, which is a prototyped sub that takes a coderef as it's only argument. But it looks to me that calling scraper { } from the client code will return not a Web::Scraper object, but a CODEREF that, when executed, will return a Web::Scraper object using the sub{} block given to scraper{}.

If anyone can shed light on this to help me better understand what's happening that would be great.

In reply to How is this sub returning an object instead of a CODEREF by windowbreaker

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