Indeed you can pass closures to new.

Have a look at Simon Cozens' Achieving Closure, which explains the process in great detail.

Basically you can do this:

my $t= XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { foo => sub { my_handler( @_,
+ @HOGS) } });
# ...
sub my_handler
  { my( $t, $elt, @HOGS)= @_; # I would probably pass \@HOGC though
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