There is a way to do what you want, but you probably don't want to do it. Here goes: 
my $handleNewYear = sub {
    # do something really useful
};

# ... lotsa logic...
if (1==$mday && 1==$month) {
    $handelNewYear->();
}

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All that I have done is stored the subroutine in a variable. Do that with all of your subroutines and all of your typos in subroutines become typos in variable names which strict.pm catches.

You may note that I also reversed the order of your == comparisons. The reason for doing that is so that if you type = instead of == some day, Perl will complain because you can't assign to a constant. This is a useful habit in many C-like languages.

In reply to Re: When -w and use strict aren't enough... by tilly
in thread When -w and use strict aren't enough... by RMGir

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