package World; use strict; use warnings; use overload '""' => sub { "world" }; sub new { bless {}, __PACKAGE__ } package main; use strict; use warnings; use Inline C => <<'END_C'; void magical_concat(SV *a, SV *b) { sv_catsv(a, b); } END_C my $greeting = "Hello, "; my $world = World->new; magical_concat($greeting, $world); $greeting .= ".\n"; print $greeting;