package Foo { use Moo; has qux => (is => 'ro'); around BUILDARGS => sub { my ($orig, $class, $args) = @_; return { qux => $args->{bar} * $args->{baz}, }; }; }; use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; my $o = Foo->new({ bar => 6, baz => 7, }); say $o->qux; say $o->bar; #### $ perl 11107488.pl 42 Can't locate object method "bar" via package "Foo" at 11107488.pl line 24.