G'day learning.moose,

Is this the type of thing you had in mind?

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;


# Role: TextHolder
{
    package TextHolder;

    use Moose::Role;

    has text => (
        is  => 'rw',
        isa => 'Str',
    );
}

# Class: TextReference
{
    package TextReference;

    use Moose;

    with 'TextHolder';

    sub read_text {
        my $self = shift;

        return $self->text;
    }
}

my $tref_early = TextReference::->new({text => 'early'});
my $tref_late  = TextReference::->new;
$tref_late->text('late');

print 'Early: ', $tref_early->read_text;
print 'Late:  ', $tref_late->read_text;
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Output:

$ pm_1124686_moose_role_attrs.pl
Early: early
Late:  late
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