in reply to Problem calling a function with name stored into scalar

Try: 

sub fred{ print 'this is fred:' . "@_" ; };;

$f = 'fred';;

&{ $f }( 1,2,3 );;
this is fred:1 2 3

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Re^2: Problem calling a function with name stored into scalar
by tj_thompson (Monk) on Jun 10, 2011 at 22:56 UTC
    That seems to be what I'm doing. I've tried adding the braces around the $func var like so: 
    print STDERR "(\&\$func) TRUE!\n"
              if &{$func}(42, 1);

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    But it doesn't seem to matter. Same error. This is from a larger piece of code, obviously, so perhaps something strange is going on behind the scenes.
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