Ugly solution, off the top of my head. I hate myself for proposing this. I hope someone will save us from:

Define a global (or file-level my variable), $val, have each sub do my $arg = $val ... ?

There's got to be a better way though =)

Update Oh, OK. I thought the problem was that the args weren't being passed to the coderefs at all =) Nothing to see, move along ... I'll feel foolish either way =)

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