Per Laurent_R: "... I am ... worrying ... that the subroutine ref names are dynamically created."
Per Mr. Muskrat: "Personal preference ... I see nothing wrong ... you have to still have to write code for each piece ..."

What worries me is that, while strict is perfectly happy with it, the code below has a run-time error that may not be triggered for hours/days/weeks/months/... 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -MData::Dump -le
"use warnings;
 use strict;
 ;;
 sub hiya { print 'hi from ', (caller(1))[3]; }
 ;;
 sub _x_foo { hiya; };
 sub _x_bar { hiya; };
 ;;
 my %disp = map { $_ => \&{ '_x_' . $_ } } qw(foo bar zot);
 dd \%disp;
 ;;
 $disp{foo}->();
 $disp{zot}->();
 $disp{bar}->();
"
{ bar => sub { "???" }, foo => sub { "???" }, zot => sub { "???" } }

hi from main::_x_foo
Undefined subroutine &main::_x_zot called at -e line 1.

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You have to write code for each piece in order for the whole thing to work reliably, but you may not discover that it doesn't until a very inopportune moment. If everything could be thoroughly tested prior to deployment, the queasy feeling in my stomach might be eased a bit, but even so...

Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re^5: Creating dispatch table with variable in function name by AnomalousMonk
in thread Creating dispatch table with variable in function name by nysus

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