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POE (Score:1)
or are they exactly the same thing?
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You store code to be run in a data structure and execute it only when accessing that data structure.
That data structure could be any variable (as an item in a list, as a scalar or as the entry inside a rather elaborate hash structure) and the code you're storing is strictly not code, but a reference to code. When it's accessed, it executes the code in that reference.
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