On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:52:19AM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote:
: Is it permissible to use variable dispatch for private methods?
Don't see why not, as long as the overhead of switching isn't imposed
on every method call.
: class Cerebellum {
: method :think() {...}
: method :ponder() {...}
: method :cogitate() {...}
:
: method some_method() {
: ...
: $activity = «:think, :ponder, :cogitate».random;
s/,//g
: $brain.$activity;
: }
: }
:
: Or would the colons be on the invocation, not the name?
Could be made to work either way.
: PS: Sorry, Piers.
He can just ignore this thread if he thinks it's too much. But Piers
really shouldn't carp--the backticks thread is highly compressible... :-)
Larry
