Maybe I am misunderstanding, but I think you would be better off subclassing your original class and calling the parent constructor. If a subclass is innapropriate, then SomeOtherClass should instantiate its own SomeClass object, store it in $self and use accessors that way. With either strategy, your eval will use SomeOtherClass instead of SomeClass.

Cheers,
Ovid

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