Says FamousLongAgo:
a better solution might be a lookup hash...
You can find a wonderful MJD tirade against [symbolic references]...it will make you a believer.
You may, however, want to see this thread, where I labeled the lookup-table approach "monkey code" and had a discussion with several people in which I pointed out that the tirade you cited does not contain any reasons why the original, symbolic reference code would really cause any problems.

In my opinion, the no strict 'refs' solution is the obvious and easy one, and so far the only arguments I have seen against it have been from superstition.

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

In reply to Re: Puzzled about strict by Dominus
in thread Puzzled about strict by webengr

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