If you want Python, just use Python ("There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." - PEP 20). Very central to the Perl philosophy is that TIMTOWTDI (though I'm not sure if this is canonized anywhere as clearly as for Python), so your suggestion is ridiculous. I for one found the bless mechanics extremely enlightening with regard to the semantics of object orientation. The feeling I had when I first got that was akin to when I first realized "to be" lumps together the semantics of identity and attribution in the english language.