I have not down-voted your node but I do think the knee-jerk anti-symref response in the case of symbolic CODE references is often inappropriate.

It is perfectly reasonable to use a Perl package as a dispatch table. After all that's excatly what Perl's object implementation does.

Do you think... 

  FOO->$bar();

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...is really any better than... 
  no strict 'refs';
  "FOO::$bar"->();

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... when you are not thinking in a OO way?

It should be noted that the security concern often leveled at symbolic CODE refs (that a malicious user could use a qualified name to access a subroutine outside the dispatch table) actually applies in the indirect class method call but does not apply in the explicit symref case.

In reply to Re^2: Calling a subroutine from a scalar by nobull
in thread Calling a subroutine from a scalar by metalgear119

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