I've had this problem too. I sent a bug report, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears.

Perl's tie() interface is pretty bad. Perl 6 will probably fix the badness by making things METHODS, not functions. That way, you merely override the method, and there's no internal code deciding how to deal with tied variables.

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