:StdArgs suggest to me that the argument names are somehow standard. Given that it's the parsing of the arguments that's being standardised, perhaps :StdParse, or :ParseArgs, or :AutoParse, or something like that?

It's occured to me that it would be really nice if the :InitArgs approach could be generalised for multiple subs.

Change :InitArgs to :ArgSpec, since this is now an argument specification hash for multiple subs.

Then, make the top level hash keys sub names (so everything else moves down a level), and use a :ParseArgs attribute on subs to indicate that they should be looked up in this hash. Then you could write something like this.

Or, you could keep the arg spec declaration near the sub, by building up the :ArgSpec hash as you go down the file.

I've not played much with Perl's attributes, so I don't know how feasible this is.

Of course, they may come a point where it's just esaier to pull in Params::Validate and be done with it.