What kind of object do you want to store? Note that running bless doesn't run the constructor, so in this case, the stored objects don't have the stored attribute (which is harmless, but for other classes, much more might be going on in the constructor).

You could call new in the package itself. To specify the class, it's better to use ref $self than __PACKAGE__, so if you later inherit from the class, objects of the new class respect the class of the storing object. 

    push @{ $self->{stored} }, ref($self)->new($it);

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It might be cleaner to let the user specify what class to use, so they can use various classes according to their needs (see Dependency Injection). It's not clear how validation should work in such a case, though: maybe the classes themselves should define a validate method? Or once the object's been constructed, it's guaranteed to be valid? Give us more details so we can answer (or ask) more questions.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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In reply to Re: calling new inside the same module? by choroba
in thread calling new inside the same module? by Discipulus

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