or skip the dispatch hash altogether and instead dispatch by name:

use strict; use warnings; for my $name (qw(Title Description Object Properties Value Wibble)) { my $code = main->can("do$name"); if (!$code) { print "!!! Missing handler for '$name'\n"; next; } $code->(); } sub doTitle { print "Title handler\n" } sub doDescription { print "Description handler\n" } sub doObject { print "Object handler\n" } sub doProperties { print "Properties handler\n" } sub doValue { print "Value handler\n" }

Prints:

Title handler Description handler Object handler Properties handler Value handler !!! Missing handler for 'Wibble'

Now if you need a new handler all you do is add the sub.

Premature optimization is the root of all job security

In reply to Re: '100 elsif's vs hash of coderef's by GrandFather
in thread '100 elsif's vs hash of coderef's by Wiggins

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