looking at the article briefly, it's a little too featureless. i'll need to take a closer look at it and see if i can use it to instantiate objects ...

ultimately, i need to do something like:

my $foo;
$foo = MyModule::ActionSet1->new() if ( condition );
$foo = MyModule::ActionSet2->new() if ( condition2 );

$foo->process();
print $foo->output();
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there are enough actions that even a hash-based dispatch table would get ugly.

it could split into a set of CGI::Application-based classes, which is perfect for CGI::Application::Dispatch-based applications. but i'm not sure that's the direction i *should* be going.