in reply to Is it possible to create a sub exclusive to a sub?

Update: ihb pointed this out before I did.

All of the other solutions so far create the anonymous sub inside the calling sub, so they recreate it on every call. A better way that avoids that wasted effort would be

BEGIN { my $bar = sub { # ... }; sub foo { # ... $bar->( $baz ); # ... $bar->( $quux ); # ... } }

The BEGIN avoids a trap for the unwary: you might otherwise call foo() before the assignment to $bar has run, blowing up the script. If this code is in a module, there is an implicit BEGIN around all of the code, so this might not be necessary (your call), but it's a good defensive habit nonetheless.

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