[Nh-pm] RE: Nh-pm digest, Vol 1 #21 - 1 msg

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:55:57 CST
"Black, Franklin" said:

>Happy New Year!
>
>How do you use pointers to functions.
>I want to send the pointer as an argument to a sub routine, dereference it
>and call the function.

perldoc perlsub

Basically, it's the same as creating pointers to arrays or lists 
(note, this is referred to in perl parlance as 'a closure'):

	my $secret_version = '1.001-beta';
	my $secret_sub = sub { print $secret_version };
	&$secret_sub();

HTH,
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Paul
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