Re^3: When -w and use strict aren't enough...

[ikegami]

in reply to Re^2: When -w and use strict aren't enough...
in thread When -w and use strict aren't enough...

Don't know, but one downside (upside?) is that your functions are no longer accessible from outside the package. That can easily be fixed by doing one of the following for exportable functions:

*handleNewYear = my $handleNewYear = sub {
    # do something really useful
};

sub handleNewYear {
    # do something really useful
}

my $handleNewYear = \&handleNewYear;