From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T15:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ahh, the hazards of an interpretive language...

Pete <neverland@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Btw, the typical solution in Ruby would be to use a Hash.  Then tt
>> will boil down to "def tt(x) your_hash[x] end".  The next best
>> solution (and also more similar to what you did) is a case statement
> Yes, of course, but the actual actions were rather more complex than
> just returning a value.  That was just for illustration...

In that case you could even put lambdas in the Hash and execute them:

def tt(x) code[x][] end

> I could (and probably eventually would) have used a case, as there
> were several other possible flag values, but code evolves, y'know...
> (:-)) 

Refactor, refactor, refactor! :-)

Kind regards

    robert