Just to clarify what others have said, Yes you can still use Getopt::Long to do what you're trying to do. The Getopt::Long manpage shows the following example:

           my $width = 80;
           sub process { ... }
           GetOptions ('width=i' => \$width, '<>' => \&process);

       When applied to the following command line:

           arg1 --width=72 arg2 --width=60 arg3

       This will call "process("arg1")" while "$width" is "80",
       "process("arg2")" while "$width" is "72", and
       "process("arg3")" while "$width" is "60".
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Note also that

This feature requires configuration option permute...

Also note that using Getopt::Long, you'll probably want to use its syntax for turning off boolean switches, rather than the one you showed.

  use Getopt::Long;
  Getopt::Long::Configure( 'permute' );

  my( $a, $b );
  GetOptions(
    'a!' => \$a,
    'b!' => \$b,
    '<>' => \&process,
  );
  sub process { ... }

  # call with args like

  -a foo bar -noa -b baz
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