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From: utashiro@sran84.sra.co.jp (Kazumasa Utashiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: suggestion for dbmopen
Message-ID: <281@sran84.sra.co.jp>
Date: 29 Jan 91 06:25:22 GMT
References: <HIMAZU.91Jan12114429@isl.mei.co.jp> <11205@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
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In article <11205@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
	lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>> : "open" take an expression as FILEHANDLE argument.
>> : But "dbmopen" doesn't take an expression as ASSOC argument.
>> : In some situations, it is useful that "dbmopen" take an expression
>> : as ASSOC.
>> 
>> Okay, I'll try to make that legal in 4.0.

Is it too much to want to use an expression for do's
SOUBROUTINE argument?  For example, I want to write like
this:

	do $foo[$num]();
	do $foo{'bar'}();

I often fall in this trap when making something like a
protocol switch.

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K. Utashiro
utashiro@sra.co.jp