On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:27:56AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: : * Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> [2009-01-02 23:00]: : > That way, you get this combination: : > : > sub pid_file_handler ( $filename ) { : > # ... top half ... : > yield; : > # ... bottom half ... : > } : > : > sub init_server { : > # ... : > my $write_pid = pid_file_handler( $options<pid_file> ); : > become_daemon(); : > $write_pid(); : > # ... : > } : : It turns out that is exactly how generators work in : Javascript 1.7: : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7
As I said before, it's trivially easy to return a closure, and I generally like my closures to be explicit: sub pid_file_handler ( $filename ) { # ... top half ... return { # ... bottom half ... } } If you tell me that another language does something a particular way, I'll take it as a possible recommendation maybe 10% of the time, and as a dire warning the other 90% of the time. :) Larry