As always, I find some insite here. The subroutine samples I had given were the way I was coding them when porting from cgi to mod_perl. I was calling the subroutines like so:

my $content = do_something_in_mod_perl(name => $name,
                                       age  => $age);
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And so forth. Well, the explanation you gave made sense to me, which is a good thing. Hopefully. Thank you for the help and ideas.

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