That's only easier to maintain if your subroutines are as simple as just doing division. But mine arn't, they are actually about a dozen or so lines of code, and only have a few points of optimization. It would be silly to have an IFTE structure returning one of 6 or 7 different possabilities... I would have to apply a simple change to every possability rather then one string. That becomes a maintanance nightmare. Hence the question in the first place... what is the best way to assemble an anonymous subroutine on the fly. (I am also curious how CGI.pm does it, since those subroutines are actually named!)

Tilly gave an answer as to why my eval was failing, but he then went on to confuse me with his disapproval of my method followed by a description of what I should do (which was exactly what I thought I WAS doing). I am somewhat confused by that, and perhaps someone can enlighten me.

In reply to RE: (3) (tilly) 1: Fly Subroutines on the Fly by Adam
in thread Fly Subroutines on the Fly by Adam

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