Thanks to all who responded so far .. my latest version of code is

#!/usr/bin/perl

# use strict;
use warnings;

#  Test bed for Getopt::Auto

use Getopt::Auto;

our $VERSION = 'x';

print __PACKAGE__  . "Dump arguments!!\n";
while ((my ($k, $v) = each %options)) {
  print "$k $v\n";
}


sub edit {
  print "In Edit routine (@_).\n";
}
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and this produces

[alex@foo dev]$ perl -w go.pl  -vt
mainDump arguments!!
Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+8.0/Getopt/Auto.pm line 143.
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This is a low priority item but I may write to Simon eventually to find out what's happening.

--t. alex
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