use strict; use warnings; package My; use Data::Dump qw(dump); my $pkg_sub = __PACKAGE__ . '::A'; my $package_declaration = "package $pkg_sub;"; eval $package_declaration . <<'EndOfPackage'; sub new { my $class = shift; bless [@_], $class; } # some more methods EndOfPackage my $new_object = $pkg_sub->new( qw( a b c) ); dump $new_object; # prints: bless(["a", "b", "c"], "My::A") 1;