Re: subroutine referencing

In the spirit of TMTOWTDI, I would use the following idiom:

my %ext = ( ... );
...

my $method = $ext{'JPEG'};
print $image->$method;
...
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That makes it clearer what the point of the variable is - it's a method name.

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Re: Re: subroutine referencing by imcsk8 (Pilgrim) on Mar 09, 2004 at 19:29 UTC
for the sake of clarity, i left the code like that because i sent it to a non-perl programmer and the other way could be kind of obscure for him ignorance, the plague is everywhere --guttermouth	[reply]