Well, here's something related I don't quite get that might help. I modified your code somewhat:

use strict;

package Foo;
sub new  { print "Expected class: $_[0]"; bless {} => shift }
sub test { print "Actual class: ". ref shift }

  package main;
  *Bar:: = \*Foo::;

   my $x = Bar::new('Bar');

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Now as I understand it, this ought to work because that last line is equivalent to my $x = Bar->new. But it doesn't. In fact it returns Undefined subroutine &Bar::new called at - line 9. So that makes me think that somehow doing a typeglob assignment on the symbol-table hash doesn't do what you'd expect it to. I haven't yet found any relevant docs though.

In reply to Re: Two argument bless sometimes ignores the class name? by Errto
in thread Two argument bless sometimes ignores the class name? by Ovid

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