{ package MyArray; use namespace::autoclean; use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints; use Moose; subtype 'myarray' => as 'ArrayRef[Num|Str|Int]'; coerce 'myarray' => from 'Num|Str|Int' => via {[$_]}; has 'myarray' => ( traits => ['Array'], is => 'rw', isa => 'myarray', default => sub { [] }, handles => { push => 'push', get => 'get', set => 'set', elements => 'elements', count => 'count', }, coerce => 1, ); __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable; } use Modern::Perl; my $a0 = MyArray->new( myarray => [ 0, [ 0, 0, 0 ], [1,2,3] ] ) ; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $a0; $a0->set(1,'cat'); print Dumper $a0; $a0->push(2.0); print Dumper $a0;