use warnings; use strict; package LoggingScalar { require Tie::Scalar; our @ISA = qw(Tie::StdScalar); sub FETCH { print "fetched: ".(${shift()} // '')."\n" } } tie my $x, 'LoggingScalar'; tie my $y, 'LoggingScalar'; tie my $z, 'LoggingScalar'; ($x, $y, $z) = qw(x y z); print "---\n"; my @a = ($x, $y . '!', $z);