No, not at all. What I'm saying is that the code I wrote achieves the goal of removing the extra variable (i.e., there's no explicit $action code ref) while not achieving the goal of a "$obj->blah(@args)" style syntax.

Oh, but that I knew. My question was clearly focusing on syntax, not semantics. It was a question "out of curiosity" after all...

So, perhaps a better short version of what I'm saying is, "if all you want to do is eliminate a variable, do this..." Sorry for the confusion.

Not at all, it's an instructive discussion anyway, for someone who could stumble upon it, I guess...