The other way round... you *first* have to allocate the typeglob, and *then* get a reference from it to pass into the closure: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Peek;

my @types = qw(
  text
);

foreach my $type (@types) {
    my $function = uc $type;
    my $type_sub;

    no strict 'refs';
    $type_sub = \&$function;
    *$function = sub {
        warn Devel::Peek::CvGV($type_sub);
    };
}
*TINYTEXT = \&TEXT;

TINYTEXT();
__END__
*main::TEXT at ovid.pl line 18.

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Is that what you want?

If you assign an anonymous sub to a scalar and stuff that into the code slot, it remains __ANON__.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re^3: What CODE typeglob slot is my anonymous sub in? by shmem
in thread What CODE typeglob slot is my anonymous sub in? by Ovid

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