#### Role #### package MyRole; use Moose::Role; has 'nodes' => ( traits => ['Hash'], is => 'rw', isa => 'HashRef[Item]', handles => { set_node => 'set', get_node => 'get', all_nodes => 'keys', } ); 1; #### B #### package BBB; use Moose; with 'MyRole'; sub TIEHASH { my $class = shift; my $self = bless {},$class; while(my($key,$value) = each(%ENV)) { $self->set_node($key => $value); } return $self; } sub FETCH { my $self = shift; my $param = shift; return $self->get_node($param); return undef; } sub STORE { my $self = shift; my $key = shift; my $value= shift; return unless defined($key); return $self->set_node($key => $value); } sub DESTORY { return 1 } 1; no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; #### A #### package A; use Moose; use base 'BBB'; with 'MyRole'; sub bind_vars { my $self = shift; my $instance = tie(%ENV,'BBB'); $self->BBB($instance); return 1; } has 'BBB' => ( is => 'rw', ); 1; no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; #### main #### package main; use base 'A'; my $obj = A->new; $obj->bind_vars; # This works , but that's not I expected print $obj->BBB->get_node('TERM'),"\n"; # I wish to use it in this way print $obj->get_node('TERM'),"\n"; $ENV{TEST} = 123; print $obj->BBB->get_node('TEST'),"\n"; print $obj->get_node('TEST'),"\n"