Indirect function call via Name

What would be the best (most elegant) way to solve the following:

Suppose I have the name of a function (i.e. not a coderef) as a
string, and I would like to call this function, passing to it
all the parameters of the current function (i.e. @_). For example:

our $func="bar";

sub foo
{
# Of course the following would not work
&$func(@_);
}

foo('x',5); # This is supposed to call &bar('x',5)

The above would work if $func were a code ref, but it is a string.
I came to the following solution which works, but is ugly:

use Data::Dumper;
sub foo
{
local $Data::Dumper::Terse=1; # No varnames
local $Data::Dumper::Indent=0; # No newlines
eval("$func(".join(',',Dumper(@_)).')');
}

Could someone suggest a better alternative?

Ronald


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