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Schemer wrote:

# an object could manipulate itself
&$object("add-msg", "get-self", sub {return $object});
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I have to disagree with this one. you're not referring to "self" (in OO terms), but merely to the (lexical, in this case) variable $object. consider this:

my $object = make_object();
&$object("add-msg", "get-self", sub {return $object});
my $copy = $object;
print &$copy("get-self"), "\n";
$object = 42;
print &$copy("get-self"), "\n";
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the output of this snippet is:

CODE(0x18350d8)
42
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which shows that $copy is still an "object", but the second call to get-self returns the current value of $object (which is not an "object" anymore).

cheers,
Aldo

King of Laziness, Wizard of Impatience, Lord of Hubris

In reply to Re: Fun with Closures by dada
in thread Fun with Closures by Schemer

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