Re: What is this doing, and why is this a good method of doing it?

[nothingmuch]

Does this capture the essence?

my @x = somefunction();
my @xs = map { 
    {
        name => $_,
        sub => sub { ... },
    }
} @x;

for (@xs) {
    no strict 'refs';
    *{ $_->{name} } = $_->{sub};
}