End3pm

Usage

    use End;
    {  my $foo = end {print "Leaving the block\n"};
       ...
       last;    # prints "Leaving the block\n".
       ...
    }

Overview

The module "End" exports a single subroutine "end", which allows you to set up some code that is run whenever the current block is exited, regardless whether that is due to a "return", "next", "last", "redo", "exit", "die", "goto" or just reaching the end of the block.

To be more precise, "end" returns an object, that will execute the code when the object is destroyed; that is, when the variable assigned to goes out of scope. If the variable is lexical to the current block, the code will be executed when leaving the block.

One can force premature execution of the code by undefining the variable assigned to, or assigning another value to the variable.

"end" only takes one argument, a code reference. If one wishes the code reference to take arguments, wrapping the code reference in a closure suffices.

Development

The current sources of this module are found on github, <git://github.com/Abigail/end.git>.

Copyright & license

Copyright (C) 2000 - 2009, Abigail

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