On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 11:11 US/Pacific, nkuipers wrote:
>> foreach $sub (@list_of_subs) { >> &{$sub}; ##-- this is the part I am stuck on. This doesn't work >> } > > I don't know the answer to your question; I'm also interested in what > others > have to say. However, I have to wonder if Perl is looking at &{$sub} > and > interpretting it as a command to execute an anonymous sub that returns > the > value of $sub, in other words, Perl is perhaps not Doing What You Mean. johnathan Paton once proposed an idea and I put a way of doing that up at: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/misc/HashSwitch.txt It's your basic 'dispatching' solution. ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]