The purposes of the prototypes in the refs is to avoid this particular error, unless you can find another way around it:

Prototype mismatch: sub Apache::ROOT::myPackage::::lost vs (@) at (eva
+l 72) line 478 (#5)
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Obviously it isn't supposed to work that way, and putting the prototypes in there was just kind of a shot in the dark. But that particular error went away :)