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in reply to Re: Re^4: Tact and the Monastery
in thread Tact and the Monastery

I --ed you in turn. 
my $closure;
{
    my $variable;
    $closure = sub { $variable = shift };
}

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The inner block is now a closure. The $variable will NOT disappear at the end of the scope wherein it was defined. The outer naked block is just a naked block. A closure can only be dynamically constructed and is a block that preserves a variable beyond the scope it was defined in.

Your own example shows just a naked block. You have perfectly explained its virtues which I was already aware (and an advocate) of, and which I did not challenge in the first place. But there is no closure in your code. Please check your definitions.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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