[Israel.pm] Using Closures as Methods

[Yuval Kogman]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 17:24:27 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> As the following code demonstrates, it is in fact possible to use closures as 
> methods in Perl 5. Furthermore, one can use the SUPER meta-class in them to 
> call the method of the base class.

Well duh, any sub reference in the symbol table is no longer
anonymous and can be used as a method.

Also, every subroutine in Perl is a closure. It's just that some of
them don't close on any variables.

my $foo;

sub bar { # also a closure
	$foo;
}


This is a pretty standard way to generate subroutines which are
mundane to write, like, for example, log event handlers, or
convenient methods.

Class::Accessor also does to generate accessors.

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