Wow. I really did think of something like this at first, but I concluded that it would be a soft reference that the 'warnings' pragma wouldn't catch but Perl Lint would. I didn't want to use a fancy soft reference like that.

However, since no one else has commented that what you wrote was a soft reference (even though it still looks like one to me), I decided to run an example thru Perl Lint, and sure enough, it passes. 

# cat test_me.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use Top::Middle;

my $class = "Top::Middle";

my $obj = $class->new(
    'info'  => 'some_data_or_whatever'
);

$obj->method();

exit 0;

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# perl -MO=Lint test_me.pl
test_me.pl syntax OK

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In reply to Re^2: Need Help Refactoring Method Calls by jffry
in thread Need Help Refactoring Method Calls by jffry

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