You could use a Role

Ok, maybe I made myself not clear.

I do not want a method on the Hubba-class that would be available to it's instances, but I want a method on it that I can call (in the same way as let's say the Moose-supplied method "has" is called) at package-load time to associate a class with a piece of information.

As an example think about the name of a database-table where instances of this class will get persisted as in Moose::Cookbook::Meta::Recipe5.

My question then is simply is there a way to avoid the uglyness (in my eyes at least) of doing something like " __PACKAGE__->meta->table('User')"