Actions using symbols

[Heime]

I customarily make symbols that I can check on as conditionals

(defun myfunc (actn)
  (when (eq actn 'something) dothis)

Would things go wrong should I start using function names as arguments
For instance, myfunc would use a mapcar implementation when ACTN is
'mapcar and an apply-partially implementation when ACTN is 'apply-partially

(defun myfunc (actn)
  (when (eq actn 'mapcar) dothis)
  (when (eq actn 'apply-partially) dothat)