Run the following program in Perl:

You may be surprised by the output. Perl 5 allows named subroutines to nest, but does not create closures for them properly. Rewrite the code above to create a reference to an anonymous local subroutine and verify that it does create closures correctly. Add the line use diagnostics; to the beginning of the original version and run it again. Based on the explanation this will give you, speculate as to how nested named subroutines are implemented in Perl 5.

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sub foo { my $lex = $_[o]; sub bar { print "$lex\n"; bar (); foo (2); foo(3);