Monks, I'm writing a package with numerous subs. At one point a sub will look at the data it is given, and make a choice as to which sub to hand it off to to do the work. This sounded like a good job for a dispatch table. I'm used to calling other subs in the same package using the: 
$self->sub($var);

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notation. I attempted to create the dispatch table like: 
my %message_types    = (
        type1   => \&{$self->sub_1},
        type2   => \&{$self->sub_2},
    );

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and I actually tried a few other notations along the same lines. Each run would result in the value of the hashkey to be undef. The only way I was able to make this work was with an explicit package name like so: 
my %message_types          = (
        type_1  => \&MY::Fully::Qualified::Package::Name::sub1,
        type_2  => \&MY::Fully::Qualified::Package::Name::sub2,
);

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The question is, is it possible to use the $self->sub notatation to do this? My assumption was that it was, but you know what they say about assumptions... I'd really rather use the self referencing notation as it looks much cleaner and is much more readable. Thanks for your help!!

In reply to Dispatch table within package question by hubb0r

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