Here is what I tried. I think its similar to what you've tried above. Its odd but convienient that after untie'ing you are left with a variable that has the same value as was last returned from FETCH. (At least on my perl v5.6.1). So you don't need to pass a reference to the variable in order to set it after the untie (here it is accessed through a closure).
use strict; use warnings; package MyTied; sub TIESCALAR { my ($class,$code) = @_; bless $code, $class; } sub FETCH { my $self = shift; print "Untie\n"; $self->(); } package main; my $var; tie $var, 'MyTied', sub { untie $var; 4 }; print "One\n"; print "$var\n"; print "Two\n"; print "$var\n"; print "Three\n"; print "$var\n"; OUTPUT: One Untie 4 Two 4 Three 4
Updated. several times.

In reply to Re: How to untie oneself? by runrig
in thread How to untie oneself? by Jenda

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