This might be crazy, but you could use a closure to generate the required subs and then load them into a hash. Something like this, perhaps: 
# Define appropriate "methods"
my @dispatch_methods = qw [ company financialDiary ];

# Routine to generate an anonymous sub using closure
sub dispatch_add
{
    my ($what) = @_;

    return sub
    {
       my ( $self, $data ) = @_;
       my $table = $what;
       my $data = $self->_generic_insert( $data, $table );
       $self->{ _dbh }->commit if ! $self->{ _error };
       return $data;
    };
}
# Build the dispatch table, trying to minimize error

sub new
{
    # Usual stuff...
    my $self = bless ...
    # :

    $self->{dispatch} = {
        map { $_ => dispatch_add{$_} } @dispatch_methods
    };
}

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Then you could call them along the lines of: 
$thing->{dispatch}->{company}->($param);

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Of course, this might be completely nuts.

Don't get me wrong. AUTOLOAD is fun, too. A hybrid approach would merely interface with the internal {dispatch} structure and call the appropriate function. This way they are pre-cached, and pre-validated. If there is no defined dispatch, AUTOLOAD can warn/die/carp appropriately.

In reply to Re: Refactor method calls or not? by tadman
in thread Refactor method calls or not? by Ovid

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