# Try and catch using prototypes. (Almost verbatim from perlsub.) sub try (&$) { my ($try, $catch) = @_; eval { &$try; }; if ($@) { local $_ = $@; &$catch; } } sub catch (&) { $_[0] } try { die "phooey"; } catch { /phooey/ and print "unphooey\n"; }; #### # Nested subroutines. sub frobnicate { my $input = shift; local *grok = sub { my $input = shift; # grok's $input is lexical, and therefore # different from the outer $input. return $input . " grokked!"; }; # Note the semicolon. return grok($input); } print frobnicate('foo'), "\n"; # However, this will work as well. sub frobnicate_again { my $input = shift; local *grok = sub { return $input . " grokked!"; }; return grok($input); } print frobnicate_again('foo'), "\n"; #### my $ip = 127.0.0.1; printf "%vd\n", $ip;