I am very unsure as to your question and the intent of your code?

I share your uncertainty. I think perl-diddler may have invented yet another way to write spaghetti code without using goto. A dispatch table approach such as you exemplify tends to be my knee-jerk approach to the sort of problem that I imagiine gave rise to the OP. 

# local can only "mask" an "our" or a global variable ...
...
# A "my" variable cannot be "localized"

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I tend to think of this a bit differently. My conception is that a my variable can be completely "localized" or isolated within a scope, whereas an our (or package global) variable cannot. The potential scoped isolation of lexical variables makes it very easy to reason about them, a great advantage. 

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le
"our $xyzzy = 33;
 print qq{A: $xyzzy};
 {
   local $xyzzy = 55;
   print qq{B: $xyzzy};
   zot();
   print qq{C: $xyzzy};
 }
 print qq{D: $xyzzy};
 ;;
 sub zot { $xyzzy = 99; }
"
A: 33
B: 55
C: 99
D: 33

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $xyzzy = 33;
 print qq{A: $xyzzy};
 {
   my $xyzzy = 55;
   print qq{B: $xyzzy};
   zot();
   print qq{C: $xyzzy};
   zonk();
   print qq{D: $xyzzy};
 }
 print qq{E: $xyzzy};
 ;;
 sub zot { $xyzzy = 99; }
 ;;
 sub zonk { my $xyzzy = 9999; }
"
A: 33
B: 55
C: 55
D: 55
E: 99

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Update: But then there's PadWalker...   (sigh)

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In reply to Re^2: how to declare a local *subname=sub{}? by AnomalousMonk
in thread how to declare a local *subname=sub{}? by perl-diddler

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