Closures are like objects, but with only one method. Here is a way that sort of gets around that limitation. This example is pretty bland, but you get the idea (exchange keys for methods).

If you prefer $object->{method}() syntax, you can use a hash reference instead of hash.
my $object = {};
%$object = constructor();

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %object = constructor();

$object{save}->('name' => 'smith');

print $object{count}->(), $/;

my $name = $object{lookup}->('name');

$object{delete}->('name');

print $object{count}->(), $/;

print "My name is $name\n";

sub constructor {
    my %object;
    return 
        'save' => sub {
            my ($key, $val) = @_;
            die "save method requires two parameters" if ! defined $va
+l;
            $object{$key} = $val;
            return;
        },
        'delete' => sub {
            my $key = shift;
            return delete $object{$key};
        },
        'lookup' => sub {
            my $key = shift;
            return $object{$key};
        },
        'count' => sub {          
            return scalar keys %object;
        }
}

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