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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:32:33PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
: How does the "sub" keyword fit in here? Is there any difference between
: the lines
: return {say "Hello World";};
: and
: return sub {say "Hello World";};
: ?
Effectively, no, for these examples. In the second case you could
omit the "return" since you're not returning a bare block, so it's
not ambiguous. (The other difference is that the explicit sub form
allows you to return from within the closure.)
Larry
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