What is the best way for config file to contain perl code, for example stub routines, right now I'm usually slurping config file via required

#...
require "/etc/myname.cfg";

..
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I tried config file modules but they're usually not flexible enough, and require way more code and awareness then simple require... and such simple method work great for specifying values, arrays, hashes etc... but what about subs?

Back to the point, I would like to specify something as a callback, or generally would like to allow defining perl code in config... my current solution looks like that:

# /etc/myscript.cfg

$somehash = {
 'Somestuff'=> {
  #...

 }, 
 'Someotherstuff'=> {
   #....
   'Actions'=> [
    "print \"hello world\";",     
    ]

  },
}
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This looks awkward in configfile, because of all this quoting required, and editors won't hilight this correctly, I'm having problems accessing variables from such eval'd code, etc,

to sum this up - code specified in configfile looks extremely ugly and unclear.

Are there better ways to do that?

package Scriptname;
require "/etc/scriptname.cfg"
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package Scriptname;
$somehash=> {
  'Something'=> {
         #.. stuff ..
         'Sub' => sub {
             print "Hello world, ";
             print "here is my local var: $var\n";
          };
   }
};
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my $sub=$somehash->{'Something'}->{'Sub'};
&$sub() if defined($sub);
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