Please allow me to nitpick a bit and to advertise an experimental feature

> You cannot return multiple lists from a function in Perl

well the OP is trying to return multiple array-refs not lists, and the new'ish use feature qw/refaliasing/; allows these to be assigned to multiple @arrays. (see tst2())

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;

use feature qw/refaliasing/;
no warnings "experimental::refaliasing";


sub tst {
    (\my %args) = @_;
    pp \%args;
}

tst({a=>1,b=>2});



sub tst2 { return [1..3],[4..7] }

our (@a,@b);

(\@a,\@b) = tst2();

pp \@b;
pp \@a;

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{ a => 1, b => 2 }
[4 .. 7]
[1, 2, 3]

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^2: Returning arrays from a package (feature qw/refaliasing/;) by LanX
in thread Returning arrays from a package by sherab

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