After chatting with Fatvamp, I think what he wants is something close to this:

sub new {
    return bless [], shift;
}

sub addItems {
    my $self= shift;
    unshift @$self, @_;
}

sub setList {
    my $self= shift;
    my( $ref )= @_;
    if(  1 == @_  &&  ref($ref)  ) {
        @$self= @$ref;
    } else {
        @$self= @_;
    }
}

sub getItem {
    my $self= shift;
    my $idx= shift;
    return $self->[$idx];
}

sub getList {
    my $self= shift;
    if (wantarray) {
        return @$self;
    } else {
        return [@$self];
    }
}
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