[Omaha.pm] Re: [oma-python] an almost-switch statement

[Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>]

On Jun 10, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Mike Hostetler wrote:
> Here is an example of real working code that decodes a list of Unicode
> strings into latin-1:
>    goodProcRef = map(lambda x: x.decode("latin-1"), goodProcRef)

How do you use that? (Can I get some context code?)

> But these days most people are leaving lambda's behind and using
> generators for a lot of there stuff.
>
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GeneratorsInPython
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pythrd.html

My brain just melted.  -grin-

> It's a bit different than the Python version above -- basically the 
> same as
>    DB = lambda x: x+42

Ya. Perl
   $f = sub { $_[0] + 42 }

> I don't mind using modules in Perl that give back object and using
> their methods/attributes.  But it get's funky sometimes.  And I've
> never made my own class in Perl, but I've never really needed to.

my $m = new Mike;
print $m->status;

package Mike;
sub new {
   bless {};
}
sub status {
   ref($_[0]) . " rules!";
}

Grin,

j