Re^4: why need my in a foreach loop?

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Nice catch.

If you switched our for my in my snippet, you'd have a closure, and you'd get a different result.

Is that correct? Because the my variable would still be in scope, would the subroutine qualify as a closure? It's my understanding that a subroutine is a closure when it preserves a variable that has gone out of scope.

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Re^5: why need my in a foreach loop? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 02, 2010 at 16:38 UTC
I don't know the precise definition if there is one. For practical purposes, I find it doesn't matter. Correction: In this case, the sub truly acts as a closure. If it didn't, it wouldn't matter if you used `our` or `my`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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