[aklug] Re: Ruby code blocks

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:56:39PM -0800, barsalou wrote:
> I'm not sure of the use case for storing code in a hash, seems fraught =20
> with opportunity.

Storing references to code within a larger data structure is fairly
common; it's one means of implementing a fast switch statement, and is
called a dispatch table.

I don't know Ruby, but I expect in order to accomplish it you would use
the Proc module. Google should give good results on 'dispatch table'
and 'closure'.

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Michael Fowler
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