Yes anonymous subs are often closure subs.

But to avoid a common misunderstanding:

In Perl at least. :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

PS: I'm not too sure about that part of the FAQ (at least in Python3)

> "Note that some languages provide anonymous functions but are not capable of providing proper closures: the Python language, for example." °

update

°) I think the FAQ should be fixed, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13857/can-you-explain-closures-as-they-relate-to-python . Even in python2 it's possible, just "hackier"

In reply to Re^2: Anonymous subroutines (Closures) by LanX
in thread Anonymous subroutines by Bod

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