NAME
callee - support recursive anonymous functions
VERSION
version 1.100820
SYNOPSIS
use callee;
my $f = sub {
my $x = shift;
return 1 if $x <= 1;
$x * callee->($x-1);
}->(5);
# $f is 120
DESCRIPTION
This module exports one function, "callee()", which allows anonymous
functions to refer to themselves. This is necessary for recursive
anonymous functions.
A recursive function must be able to refer to itself. Typically, a
function refers to itself by its name. However, an anonymous function
does not have a name, and if there is no accessible variable referring
to it, i.e. the function is not assigned to any variable, the function
cannot refer to itself. This is where "callee" comes in.
This module is just very thin syntactic sugar for Devel::Caller.
FUNCTIONS
callee
Returns a coderef to the function within which it is called.
SEE ALSO
Takesako-san wrote "arguments.pm" - see
- which does
practically the same thing; see also his blog entry (in Japanese):
.
I released this module because "arguments.pm" is not on CPAN, and
because Devel::Caller already existed on CPAN, but not with the syntax I
wanted.
INSTALLATION
See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl
modules.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
.
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive
Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit to find a
CPAN site near you, or see .
The development version lives at .
Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard
git and github infrastructure.
AUTHOR
Marcel Gruenauer
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Marcel Gruenauer.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.