Monks,

I'm used to call functions like this: 

my %commands =
  (
   command1 => {
         description => "Does something",
         function => sub { my $var = shift; print "var = $var\n"}
        },
 )

my $cmd = 'command1';
$commands{$cmd}{function}($param)

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So I thought it could be as easy to quickly change, for development purposes, a function under test by doing: 

my $func = \&version1;
is($func($param), 0, 'makes sense');

my $func = \&version2;
is($func($param), 0, 'does it ?');

sub version1{[some code]}

sub version2{[some code]}

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But no dice. Syntax error.

So how are 'function pointers' used with scalars ?

Thanks !

In reply to Quickly changing a function under test in Test::More by carcassonne

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