Or, more accurately, the name of the concept. 'dispatch' is when you use 
my %dispatch = (
foo => &somefunc,
bar => &someotherfunc,
baz => sub {...}
);

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and 'indirect' is new Some::Class instead of Some::Class->new(). What is the name of the idiom where you do something like 
my $funcname = ( $someCondition ? 'foo' : 'bar' );
$funcname->($arg1, $arg2);

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I made the 'mistake' of putting this into a piece of Perl code being supervised by a Pythonista (don't ask). Because it took him three rounds of explanations to understand it he wanted to google the concept. He can't find it. And I can't find it either because I think I am using the wrong term. Can someone point me in the direction of my lost google-fu?

In reply to Function name in a variable, can't recall the concept by mpersico

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