#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; package Cute; sub TIEHASH {bless {}, shift} sub STORE {my ($self, $key, $sub) = @_; $$self{$key} = sub {$sub->($key)}} sub FETCH {${$_[0]}{$_[1]}} package main; tie my %hash, 'Cute'; my $greeting = sub {print "Hello, $_[0]\n"}; $hash{world} = $greeting; $hash{earth} = $greeting; foreach my $key (qw /world earth/) { &{$hash{$key}}; } __END__ Hello, world Hello, earth