From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2005-02-06T02:08:00+09:00
Subject: Dispatching a function based on a message

I'm back writing my small network app (IM client) and I need to
dispatch functions based on the messages received from the server. For
example, if my app gets a string like

MSG msg_number som_other_text

it should call the function process_MSG and pass some_other_text as an argument.

How can I do that? I was thinking of a big case statement, but I'm not
sure that's the Ruby Way. Probably a hash with MSGs as keys and
process_MSGs as values?

Thanks for your ideas,
Ed
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