From: Philliam Auriemma <phil.auriemma@...>
Date: 2009-12-24T16:10:12+09:00
Subject: Storing methods in arrays or hashes

Hey all,
I'm pretty new to ruby, and I absolutely love it. I have aquestion. I
have programmed in a language called lua before (which had real full-
fledged anonymous functions), and with a lua table, which is Lias
version of a hash and an arrary combined, you could do something like
this:

newtable = { 1 = function() print("hi from 1") end,
                   2 = function() print("hi from 2") end
}

even though some of you haven't even ever heard of lua before, it's
easy to guess what this does: it creates two keys, 1 and 2, in a
table, newtable, and assigns two functions as their values. After
doing that, you can do this:

newtable[1]()

To call the function stored in newtable[1]. All that begs the
question: is something similar available in ruby?