well, i am not afforded the luxury of limiting the scope of my symbol table manipulations, and for some reason, doing an undef &$foo works in that it destroys the subroutine, but UNIVERSAL::can($package,$method) still returns true, so something wasn't complete there. However, I now have code that does what i need and passes my tests: 
use Symbol qw( gensym );

my $old;
{
    no strict 'refs';
    $old = \*{ "package::func_name" };
}

my $new = gensym;
*$new = *$old{$_} foreach ( grep { defined *$old{$_} } qw( SCALAR ARRA
+Y HASH IO FORMAT ) );

{
    no strict 'refs';
    *{ "package::func_name" } = *$new;
}

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In reply to Re: undefining one slot of a typeglob by AidanLee
in thread undefining one slot of a typeglob by AidanLee

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