Re: Why are closures cool, continued?

[mr.dunstan]

Ok how about this: true or false (the author of the very first example in this thread and I were talking thru what constitutes this) ...

"A closure is different from an anonymous subroutine in that (instead of having private variables) it -saves- the variables passed into it in its scope!"

This seems like a reasonable enough and perfectly clear statement, but to be honest anytime I think something is reasonable and clear, that's when I'm about to start being REALLY wrong! :)

-mr.dunstan

[perrin]

Closure and anonymous sub -- two totally different things! An anonymous sub is a ref to a sub without a name. A closure is any sub (named or not) that refers to lexical variables defined outside of its scope.

[grinder]

Nearly. An anonymous sub is a sub without a name that can only be accessed via a reference (to that sub).
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