Thanks that is a little more readable. I can't see how adding map to the mess would make it more readable. And as far as '_' meaning private ... I guess that would be private by convention since Perl doesn't really have any private methods or members, but conventions are only good if to tell people about them and this particular convention isn't documented anywhere. It might more sense to let people on that this method is private like so ...

sub private_my_unstuckup_subroutine {
...
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... or how about even ...

# this method should be treated as though it is priavte
sub my_unstuckup_method {
...
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... or one could write the code in a language that actually supports private methods and memebers.

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