Since GrandFather wrote the object oriented code above for me, I am more than willing to show how I would write it in functions. I let my eyes glaze over on the overdrive bit, so I don't have a functional way to do that (if there is a way, that is).

Let's start with the module:

packack Random::Things;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(RandDayPart RandLight RandWeather RandTense);

sub RandDayPart {
  my @randdaypart = qw(morning evening afternoon night);
  return $randdaypart[rand @randdaypart];
}

sub RandLight {
  my @randlight = qw(bright dark gloomy dazzling);
  return $randlight[rand @randlight];
}

sub RandWeather {
  my @randweather = qw(stormy windy rainy calm);
  return $randweather[rand @randweather];
}

sub RandTense {
  my @randtense = ('was', 'is', 'will be');
  return $randtense[rand @randtense];
}

1;
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Now the script:

use strict;
use warnings;

use Random::Things qw(RandDayPart RandLight RandWeather RandTense);

my $random_day_part = RandDayPart;
my $random_light = RandLight;
my $random_weather = RandWeather;
my $random_tense = RandTense;

print "It $random_tense a $random_light and $random_weather $random_da
+y_part."
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It may not be nice and have things like inheritance that the OO version has, but it will do the same thing in a crunch.

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