#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use Data::Dumper; use Tie::Hash; package Tie::Hash::Mine { BEGIN { our @ISA = qw(Tie::StdHash) }; sub STORE { warn "Setting AnyEvent::DNS::$_[1]"; $_[0]->SUPER::STORE($_[1], ($_[1] eq 'DOMAIN_PORT') ? sub () { 1053 } : $_[2]) } }; BEGIN { tie %AnyEvent::DNS::, 'Tie::Hash::Mine'; } #use AnyEvent::DNS; <-- uncommenting this results in a segmentation fault! BEGIN { package AnyEvent::DNS { sub ONE () { 1 } sub DOMAIN_PORT () { 53 } } } say Dumper \%AnyEvent::DNS::; say Dumper tied(%AnyEvent::DNS::);