[ic] Function inside user tag

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Peter (peter at pajamian.dhs.org):
> On 11/23/2007 03:28 AM, Marco Mescoli wrote:
> > Is it possible declare and call a perl function inside user tag ?
> > Digged mailing list without any example ...
> 
> I usually do something like:
> 
> ...................
> 
> # Declare sub foo
> my $foo = sub {
> 	my ($bar, $baz) = @_;
> }
> 
> 
> # Call foo
> &$foo($bar, $baz);
> 
> ...................
> 
> 
> I think you can also just declare the sub and call it, but I've never
> tried it.  I know the above works, though.
> 

It works to the point that you can create packages, modules, and
everything else and call them.

In fact, you will see Usertags like [get-url] "require" modules then
use their routines. And we frequently define subs in UserTags.

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