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NAME
    End - generalized END {}.

SYNOPSIS
        use End;

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

DESCRIPTION
    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.

BUGS
    Due to a bug in Perl 5.6.0 (and perhaps before), anonymous subroutines
    that are not a closure will not go out of scope, not even on program
    termination. That is why "end" wraps the code fragment in a closure.

    There is a second bug in Perl 5.6.0 (and perhaps before) why this is
    necessary. If the code fragment isn't wrapped in another code reference,
    the original subroutine will be blessed in the package, making that
    "ref" on that code no longer returns the right value.

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

AUTHOR
    This package was written by Abigail, <mailto:cpan@abigail.be>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2000 - 2009, Abigail

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