Re: Passing user data to request callback
Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
Tue, 28 Feb 1995 13:58:43 +0000
> I think the $magic stuff is not needed.
That'd be good, cause it's not really nice.
> Perl 5.001 implements closures which should be able to handle this
> better. You should be able to say:
> my $magic;
> $rc = request(..., sub { ...; something($magic)... }, ...);
Ehr... I'm not familiar with the term 'closure', can you elaborate?
Are lexically scoped variables visible to subroutines defined in that
scope?
-- Martijn
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