Blessing is the usual technique for creating all objects. All it does is mark the 'thingy' (scalar, hash or whatever) pointed to by the reference as belonging to a particular package. Doing this allows the method call syntax to work, ie 
$ref->method(@args)

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is shorthand to tell perl to execute 
Foo::Bar::method($ref, @args)

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where Foo::Bar is the package that the thingy pointed to by $ref has been blessed into. If the 'method' sub doesn't exist in Foo::Bar, then Perl looks in the packages listed in @Foo::Bar::ISA for a sub called 'method', and so on.

Tying is something completely unrelated, and only has a marginal conection with OO (in the sense that it's implemented using OO). It's used when you want to take control of how a variable is accessed. 

tie @arr, Foo::Bar, @args

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calls 
Foo::Bar->TIEARRAY(@args)

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and this sub is supposed to return a blessed object of some type (not necessarily an array). Perl then attaches this object to the variable in question (@arr), and marks it as being tied. Any subsequent access of this variable (eg $arr[3] = 4) is intercepted, and rather than modifying the contents of the real array, a method is called on its associated object, eg 
$hidden_object->STORE(3,4);

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Dave.

In reply to Re: Difference between tie and bless by dave_the_m
in thread Difference between tie and bless by GoCool

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