Really? That seems like a better alternative than writing your own dispatch table? Even using the built in handlers, you still have to write the subroutines themselves. I guess from an abstraction perspective it is appealing but consider my existing code looks like:

my $twig = XML::Twig->new();
while (<$fh>) {
    $twig->parse($_);
    # ...
}
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Will now need to look like:

while (<$fh>) {
    my $twig = XML::Twig->new($data_struct);
    $twig->parse($_);
    # ...
}
[download]

I have no idea the extent of the performance overhead but it is probably less than the alternative:

my $twig = XML::Twig->new($data_struct);
while (<$fh>) {
    $twig->parse($_);
    # ...
    my $copy = deep_copy($data_struct);
    $data_struct = clear_structure($data_struct);
}
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I am not saying it is a bad idea - it just doesn't feel clean to me.

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