>Sorry, I thought I was clear and properly punctuated.
It was a dig at your use of the sigil-less language in your example :-P
>In the second case, you're calling a function which can produce any error
>that all of the functions in table are capable of generating.
I have no idea what you mean by this, are you sure you're not carrying over
some freaky Python conventions to Perl?
>This may also include an illegal reference into table in the first place.
Yes, and?
>In the first example, you eliminate the indexing into the dispatch table as a
>seperate step from actually making a subroutine call.
That's an phrase. Regardless, your proposal still would not solve the problem
of using a non-existent subruotine, for that you'd need:
exists( $dispatch{$sub} ) ? $dispatch{$sub}->() :
warn "Key <$sub> does not exist in the dispatch table";
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