> One might consider for to be a perl approximation of with :)

yep, I was also thinking of offering a $_ default

with {
    meth1();
    meth2();
    ...
} for @objects;
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Tho your example didn't alias the objects but the attributes.

But Tk might not be the best use case here, Choroba privately suggested to look at XML::LibXML .