It is just like you ask me why "goto" is bad in *this* case, I will say, no, it is bad in every case, you should never ever use it.

Objection. I have never used goto itself, but last, next and so on are little more than glorified gotos and I use these religiously. And I'm fairly certain there may at some point be a case when goto will be more appropriate than any "structured" approach and in that case, I won't hesitate to use it.

Also don't forget that OO in Perl is nothing but symbolic lookups.

You are right of course that dispatch hashes are better.

Makeshifts last the longest.