Re: Benchmarking (was: Re: [MacPerl] crazy hoops to do something that seems so simple?)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12:47 -0500 2000.11.15, Scott R. Godin wrote:
>ahhhhhhh ok.. so um.. why is there no \ reference to the sub then?
>
>such as my $trans = \&sub whatever {#content};
>
>is that implicit in the eval?

Two primary ways to create a reference to a function:

1. Anonymous sub:

    $ref = sub { ... };

2. Named sub:

    $ref = \&somesub;

Ronald chose the first one, since there was no named sub to create a
reference to, as in the second one.

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