I have not down-voted your node but I do think the knee-jerk anti-symref response in the case of symbolic CODE references is often inappropriate.

It is perfectly reasonable to use a Perl package as a dispatch table. After all that's excatly what Perl's object implementation does.

Do you think...

  FOO->$bar();
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...is really any better than...

  no strict 'refs';
  "FOO::$bar"->();
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... when you are not thinking in a OO way?

It should be noted that the security concern often leveled at symbolic CODE refs (that a malicious user could use a qualified name to access a subroutine outside the dispatch table) actually applies in the indirect class method call but does not apply in the explicit symref case.