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in reply to How to map function name to coderef?

... what I would really like is to map a string to the code reference of the function itself ...

If you mean an arbitrary string, the following is one way. 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my %f_map = ( glue => \&foo, );
 ;;
 print $f_map{glue}->('hoo');
 ;;
 sub foo { return 'FOO' . $_[0]; }
"
FOOhoo

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