[Chicago-talk] Dynamic method call

Steven Lembark lembark at jeeves.wrkhors.com
Thu Nov 6 10:47:07 CST 2003



-- JT Smith <jt at plainblack.com>

> I do this all the time...and you've got it absolutely right.

Depends on whether you prefer to use indirect references. Using
can() to pre-filter the name gives better control/error messages.


> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 09:21:16 -0600
>   "Jay Strauss" <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>> How do I call a method, where a variable contains the method name?
>>
>> my $method = "do_something";
>> $self->$method;



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