#!/usr/bin/perl -I../lib package My::IO; use metaclass 'Moose::Meta::Class' => ( instance_metaclass => 'MooseX::GlobRef::Meta::Instance' ); use Moose; has 'file' => ( is => 'ro', isa => 'Str', required => 1, ); sub open { my $fh = shift; my $hashref = ${*$fh}; open $fh, $hashref->{file} or confess "cannot open"; return $fh; } sub getlines { my $fh = shift; return readline $fh; } my $io = My::IO->new( file => $ARGV[0] || die "Usage: $0 *file*\n" ); print "::::::::::::::\n"; print $io->file, "\n"; print "::::::::::::::\n"; $io->open; print $io->getlines;