You don't want a smarter sub so much as the ability to pass behaviors into a sub. This is known as a subref or coderef and is the basis for functional programming.

The idea is that you have a set of structures, just like your nested if-statements. You want to have a set of behaviors in that nested-if and you don't want to have to hard-code it all over the place. 

sub nested_ifs {
    my ($i_max, $j_max, @behaviors) = @_;
    foreach my $i ( 1 .. $i_max ) {
        foreach my $j ( 1 .. $j_max ) {
            foreach my $behavior ( @behaviors ) {
                $behavior->( $i, $j );
            }
            # Or, more succinctly:
            # $_->( $i, $j ) for @behaviors;
        }
    }
}

sub func1 { ... }
sub func2 { ... }

nested_ifs( 10, 20, \&func1, \&func2, sub { my ($i,$j) = @_; print "I:
+ $i\n\tJ: $j\n"; } );

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My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: In Search of a Smarter Sub by dragonchild
in thread In Search of a Smarter Sub by Petras

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