note AnomalousMonk <blockquote><i>... is it possible to write a perl subroutine that does the same thing, myPerlSub BLOCK LIST </i></blockquote> Absolutely. See [doc://perlsub] and in particular [doc://perlsub#Prototypes]. <c> >perl -wMstrict -le "sub mysub (&@) { my $coderef = shift; map $coderef->($_), @_; } my @out = mysub { $_ += 33 } 0 .. 5; print qq{@out}; " 33 34 35 36 37 38 </c> 716367 716377