[plug] Perl Query...

[Trevor Phillips]

Christian wrote:
> 
> Basically if you have a scalar like $blink which is the name of a Perl
> subroutine that you want to call you can do it like this:
> 
> &$bink();
> 
> Obviously if its part of a module or whatever you'll need to adjust the
> syntax for this.  Also note that you can pass parameters into it the
> normal way via the parentheses.

I know this syntax. I just can't figure out how to apply it to calling a
subroutine in a module, rather than a straight/local subroutine call.

> > One way I've nutted out is like this:
> >   exec "Fred->$bink"
> > But that doesn't seem to be very efficient (using exec & all), and gets more
> > complex when you want to pass args to $bink...
> 
> Does that work?  Weird... I thought exec was just for executing new
> programs.

D'oh! Sorry. "eval", not "exec". ^_^;;

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