In the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, I offer this OO approach: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @array_1 = ("tom","harry","diana","nick","sally","henry");
my @obj = map { new Person (name=>$_) }  @array_1;

$_->action() for @obj;

#------------------------------
BEGIN{
package Person;
    my $actionIndex=0;
    my @actions = qw (play eat sleep);
    my %actsub;

    sub new{
       my ($class, %args )= @_;
       return bless { ACTION => $actions[$actionIndex++ % scalar @acti
+ons],
                      %args,
           }, $class;
    }

    sub action{
      my $self = shift;
       $actsub{ $self->{ACTION} }->($self,@_);
    }

    # Initialize class ...
    for my $actname (@actions){
     $actsub{$actname} = 
      sub {
        my $self = shift;
        print $self->{name} . " likes to $actname\n";
      }
    }
    1;
}

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Which produces: 
tom likes to play
harry likes to eat
diana likes to sleep
nick likes to play
sally likes to eat
henry likes to sleep

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     Potentia vobiscum ! (Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes)

In reply to Re: Implementing a cyclic array by NetWallah
in thread Implementing a cyclic array by perlpal

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