You could keep a hash of subreferences, and in practice you'll be doing the same thing (the symbol table is a hash),
we're not talking about me having a problem with strict.pm. (1) =)
actually i never used the my $coderef = main->can($subname) thing for projects i'm programming on. just for trying out.
i'm well aware that a hash of subrefs would be the way to go, i just saw that code \&$subname somewhere, and i really never stumbled upon that paragraph in strict.pm where it is documented.
it's just that i usually thought that would require no strict, and i find that in more people's code that they are doing something like that:
no strict;
my $ref = \&$name;

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so i was really surprised it worked with strict.

(1) i'm using 'no strict' a lot, though, for munging the symbol table (dynmic class generation and things like that)

In reply to Re^2: strict and symbolic subroutine refs by tinita
in thread strict and symbolic subroutine refs by tinita

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