in reply to Bad practice or duct-tape hack?

Hmmm... I was doing something pretty similar just this evening. Though my hard-coded values for those attributes will eventually be replaced by a config file of some sort.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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