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in reply to How do I reference methods?

Though there are other interesting ways of getting a method reference, there already exists an equivalently straightforward way of doing this. 

$ref = \&Class::method;
$instance = new Class;
$ref->( $instance, @args );  # - calls method of Class for the given i
+nstance

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