NAME
Sub::DeferredPartial - Deferred evaluation / partial application
DESCRIPTION
An instance of this class behaves like a sub (or, more precisely: subroutine
reference), but it supports partial application and the evaluation of
operators applied to such function objects is deferred too.
That means, evaluation has to be forced explicitly (which makes it easier to
add introspection capabilities).
Objects that represent deferred (delayed, suspended) expressions are known
as suspensions or thunks in various programming circles.
Don't confuse with the same terms in the context of threads!
AUTHOR
Steffen Goeldner <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004 Steffen Goeldner. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
