in reply to Re: subroutine referencing
in thread subroutine referencing

I'm assuming that the OP is using either GD or ImageMagick, so the answer would most likely be no.

Also, the technique is very useful in other situations. What the OP has is very similar to a dispatch table, but is a list of method names, not subroutine references.

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