From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T10:39:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes and Blocks (Syntactical/Feature question)

Pete Elmore wrote:
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> 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 }
>     }

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

while a_condition
   states[state].call
end