Re: Building an anonymous subroutine

Perhaps you could put your common code in strings and use eval statements to reference it:

$encode = 'p';
$sub_ref = test($encode);

sub test
{ my $e = shift;
  my $eval1 = 'print "first bit of reusable code\n";';
  my $eval2 = 'print "second bit of reusable code\n";';

  $e eq 'p'? return sub
  { eval $eval1;
    print "you typed 'p' as your option\n";
    eval $eval2;
  }:
  $e eq 'b'? return sub
  { eval $eval1;
    print "you typed 'b' as your option\n";
    eval $eval2;
  }:
  return sub
  { eval $eval1;
    print "you typed 'u' as your option\n";
    eval $eval2;
  };
}

$encoded_output = &$sub_ref;
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Sorry this is such a cruddy example!

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Re: Re: Building an anonymous subroutine by mem (Acolyte) on Aug 12, 2002 at 12:29 UTC
Instead of returning subs which constantly evals strings (your `eval $evalN` lines), you can just eval a string that defines a sub once, something like this: `#!/usr/bin/perl -l use strict; use warnings; my @subs = ( q/ { my $i=0; sub { print "($i) First sub, sir!"; ++$i; } } /, q/ { my $i=0; sub { print "($i) Another sub, sir!"; ++$i; } } / ); my @code = map { eval $_ } @subs; $code[rand(2)]->() for (0 .. 20);` [download] I hope that isn't too obscure. It just places two strings into an array. Each string is a block of code defining a variable and returning a sub using that variable. Later the strings are eval'ed in order to generate callable code. And last, the code is actually called. The random index is there just to make it clear that there is a closure in the game. Sorry about that "sir!" thing, I saw Full Metal Jacket the other day and I can't get it out of my head. Be happy that my subs aren't mooing.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Building an anonymous subroutine by Anonymous Monk on Aug 13, 2002 at 00:37 UTC
Doing an eval without checking $@ and throwing a useful error message is a really bad idea. I would also suggest reading the section on Plain Old Comments in perlsyn and using that to cause any errors thrown from within the subroutine to have more useful and meaningful names than just eval 38.	[reply]