[ABE.pm] HOP Q

Faber J. Fedor faber at linuxnj.com
Wed Sep 27 16:30:56 PDT 2006


Ive been reading "Higher Order Perl" and I think I'm impressed; I'm
still fumbling around trying to apply the stuff.

However, there's one notation in his code examples that I don't grok.
Using the memoize-norm2 example in his book
(http://hop.perl.plover.com/Examples/memoize-norm2), he does this:

sub memoize {
    my ($func, $keygen) = @_;
    ...
    $cache{$key} = $func->(@_) unless exists $cache{$key};
    ...
}

where $func is a coderef.

I don't get the $func->(@_) call.  Isn't that equivalent to
$func->($func, $keygen)?  Not only does it not make sense (to me) to
pass a coderef to the code you're referencing, but I don't see where (if
at all) he modifies the original code being referenced to handle the
passed coderef.

Or am I completely off-base?

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