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in thread File::Find considered hard?

I guess you are right it would be best if File::Find supported both types of interfaces, functional and iterative.

There is no currying going on in here though. The find() is a higher order function, but it is not curried. If it was it would allow you to pass it just the wanted() function and get a function "find_and_do_something()": 

my $delete_tmp = find(sub {unlink($_) if -f and /\.tmp$/i});
...
$delete_tmp->($one_directory);
...
$delete_tmp->($other_directory);
..

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Re: Re: Re: File::Find considered hard?
by etcshadow (Priest) on Mar 16, 2004 at 20:58 UTC
    The find() is a higher order function, but it is not curried.
    Right... I meant that the "wanted" function is (at least frequently) curried, or at least a closure. 
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