I see two problems with that. First, what if you want a typed variable that's empty?

my Dog $spot; # new Dog

my Dog $dog = $spot; # oops - create a Dog just to destroy it

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The other problem I see with making that change is that every use of my winds up with run-time overhead to call attributes::import. If you limit it only to my statements with types, that might be OK, but the more general case would suggest that my $rover would call attributes::import in the current package with an empty list, too.

In either case, I think it's too much overhead for the sake of some nice object constructor syntax.

That said, ++ for cool exploration of attributes.pm. That attributes as constructor trick might be useful for quick-and-dirty generic objects with dynamically-generated accessors.

my Object $soldier : name rank serial_no;

$soldier->name( "Damian" );

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