require "what_everyone_else_said"; If you really, really want to user symrefs with strict in effect (which is usually the only reason I ever _want_ strict in efeect) you can turn off just that feature of stricture where you need it:

use strict;
# Your code here with full stricture in effect

{
   no strict 'refs';
   # Code that uses symbolic references confined to
   # this block.
}
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