Sometimes it's amazing how simple things can really turn out to be. At Re^5: RFC: Class::Proxy::MethodChain I said

[H]ow I long for the beauty of saying something like

given(Gtk::FileDialog->new()) {
    .ok_button.label("Load");
    .cancel_button.label("Exit");
    .connect_signal(destroy => sub { ... });
    # ...
}
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Then I went on to abuse map to almost get there. Well, guess what - I can emulate the exact same thing (modulo syntax) in three lines Perl 5 that could hardly be simpler:

sub for_obj(
    local $_ = shift;
    shift->();
    $_;
}
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which lets me write

my $window = for_obj(Gtk::Window->new("toplevel"), sub {
    $_->signal_connect(delete => sub { Gtk->exit(0) });
    $_->set_title("Test");
    $_->border_width(15);
    $_->add(for_obj(Gtk::Button->new("Quit") ,sub {
        $_->signal_connect(clicked => sub { Gtk->exit(0) });
        $_->show;
    });
    $_->show;
});
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It can be that simple. Even the snippet at multiple method calls against the same object (f.ex GUI programming) is a dozen times more effort than necessary. (I added an update there pointing here.)

I really need to get a handle on my hubris..

Update: or simply

sub for_obj { $_[1]->() for $_[0]; $_[0] }
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Makeshifts last the longest.

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