From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T10:37:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes and Blocks (Syntactical/Feature question)

On Saturday, October 30, 2004, 11:29:20 AM, Pete wrote:

> I haven't been able to find any documentation on the syntax for a
> certain feature, and am not sure the feature exists.  What I would like
> to do is add a block of code to a hash, so I could do something like this:

>         state = 0
>         states = {
>                 0 => { puts "State 0"; state = 1 },
>                 1 => { puts "State 1"; state = 0 }
>         }

It's pretty easy:

  state = 0
  states = {
    0 => lambda { puts "State 0"; state = 1 },
    ...
  }

  while a_condition
    states[state].call
  end

Cheers,
Gavin