Re^2: When -w and use strict aren't enough...

[andyford]

This intrigues me.
but
Why do you say "Probably don't want to..."?
because
"it's too much work"?
or because
"it's dangerous/bad/ugly"?

[ikegami]

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;

[tilly]

Because it is ugly. And will be sure to generate negative comments from any maintainance programmer. And cannot be mixed with OO techniques.

Other than that, it is a veru good idea. But its goodness is simply not worth the arguments that you're bound to generate.