in reply to Re^2: Real life uses for closures.
in thread Real life uses for closures.
To be honest, at the time of my writing my "definition" of closures was "functions holding refs to outer variables". I went to re-read the wikipedia article shortly after posting.
That said, I have yet to come across a case where several functions share the same context (aside from global variables, e.g. my $foo in the beginning of a package). If I was to design something like that (especially if the context was supposed to be mutable), I would probably end up with a class. Perl is object-oriented, after all.
An example I could imagine was several AnyEvent callback sharing the same resource guard - where resource is not released until all callbacks have either fired, or failed. But this is, again, closer to "generation of subs" then to "use of full power of closures".
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Re^4: Real life uses for closures.
by davido (Cardinal) on Feb 15, 2013 at 17:40 UTC |