All good responses so far. I'll agree, in this example, I can't see a reason though.

Just to add, another useful instance is if you want to avoid a long nested "if/else" structure, eg, instead of:

if ($var eq 'one') 
{ 
    &subOne; 
}
elsif ($var eq 'two') 
{ 
    &subTwo; 
}

...

elsif ($var eq 'ten') { 
    &subTen; 
}
else 
{
    die "Invalid \$var"; 
}

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use this instead 
my %subs = ( one => \&subOne,
             two => \&subTwo,
             ...
             ten => \&subTen,
           );

if ( exists $subs{$var} )
{
    &{$subs{$var}};
}
else
{
    die "Invalid \$var";
}

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In reply to Re: why use a coderef? by cLive ;-)
in thread why use a coderef? by juanbro

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