[Chicago-talk] The "other" closure

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Dec 3 13:04:01 CST 2003


>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomason <jthomasoniii at yahoo.com> writes:

Jim> So, with only using that requirement, this is a
Jim> closure:

Jim> {
Jim>   my $static = 0;
Jim>   sub foo {
Jim>     print STDERR "I've been called ", ++$static, "
Jim> times\n";
Jim>     #...do interesting things
Jim>   }
Jim> }

I always make sure such a block is a BEGIN block, so that (a) it
doesn't matter where I put it in my program - the initialization has
happened, and (b) it doesn't matter if I reexecute that code.

In fact, if you reexecute *that* code, you'll find a "won't stay shared"
error, I bet.

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