I dont want to have to bother with creating an anonymous subroutine.
This kind of comment always puzzles me. Why would you bother exclude a probably conveninet solution to your problem without any specific reason? In this case what's wrong with anonymous subroutines? If there is a good reason please elaborate. That might give us some food for thought. Otherwise I don't really want to bother going through arbitrary hoops just for the sake of it.

Just my 0.0229 Euro rant