Re^3: Dispatch table within package question

Perl implements hashes such that lookups are extremely efficient. The size of the hash doesn't matter.

Your syntax,

$self->{message_types}->{$type}->(@args);
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should be fine. What's the error? What's your code? Remember, that won't use the current value of $self, but the one $self had when the anonymous sub was created (assuming $self was a lexical (my) variable).

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Re^4: Dispatch table within package question by loris (Hermit) on Oct 14, 2005 at 06:59 UTC
Sorry, you're right, it does work as you say. I had tried it out in an existing module with a whole lot of other gubbins with seemed mess things up (or at least prevent me from seeing clearly what I was doing). Thanks again for the help. loris "It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma . . . twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other . . . and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret . . ."	[reply]

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Re^4: Dispatch table within package question
by loris (Hermit) on Oct 14, 2005 at 06:59 UTC

Sorry, you're right, it does work as you say. I had tried it out in an existing module with a whole lot of other gubbins with seemed mess things up (or at least prevent me from seeing clearly what I was doing).

Thanks again for the help.

loris

"It took Loris ten minutes to eat a satsuma . . . twenty minutes to get from one end of his branch to the other . . . and an hour to scratch his bottom. But Slow Loris didn't care. He had a secret . . ."

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