I find myself using this pattern a lot, and I'm not sure of two things: 1) Is this standard operating procedure and there is a name for it? 2) Is it forward compatible, going to work in perl6? All I'm doing is blessing a reference in the subroutine, "new" and then tying that blessed thingy to the same package. Example, "MyPackage.pm" 
package MyPackage;
use strict;
our $VERSION = 0;

use Tie::Hash;
use base qw(Tie::ExtraHash);

# OO Interface

sub new {
  my $class = ref($_[0]) || $_[0];
  my $self = bless {}, $class;
  tie %$self, $class;
}

sub to_string { join ' ', %{$_[0]}; }

# Tie interface

sub STORE { $_[0][0]{$_[1]} = ucfirst($_[2]); }

1;

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Example, "t-mypackage.pl" which uses "MyPackage.pm" 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MyPackage;

my $p = MyPackage->new();
$$p{Hello} = "world";
print $p->to_string, "\n";

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In reply to Blessing into the same package in class (object) and tie contexts by ryangies

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