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in reply to simple anonymous subroutine and variable interpolation timing question

I see three possible solutions to this:
  1. 1) Save the value in another variable, using Readonly if you want to ensure the saved value doesn't get modified.
  2. 2) Use a closure.
  3. 3) Interpolate the variable in an eval'd anonymous subroutine.
use Readonly; my $str = 'hi'; # String Readonly my $STR => $str; # Closure my $closure = do { my $var = $str; sub { $var } }; # Evalled Sub my $anonsub = do { (my $var = $str) =~ s/(["\\])/\\$1/g; eval qq{sub {"$var"}}; }; $str = 'hello'; print "string = $STR\n"; print "closure = ", $closure->(), "\n"; print "anonsub = ", $anonsub->(), "\n";