By the way, if you use a & prototype, you can still only use a bare block as the first argument - for the other arguments you have to supply a coderef by using sub { ... }. I have written a module that can optionally bypass this restriction using Filter::Util::Call - you might want to take a look at this.

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Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.
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