Most of your life's problems can be solved at CPAN. :-) Just write: use Method::Signatures::Simple; http://search.cpan.org/~rhesa/Method-Signatures-Simple-1

Most of your life's problems can be solved at CPAN. :-) Just write: use Method::Signatures::Simple; http://search.cpan.org/~rhesa/Method-Signatures-Simple-1.02/lib/Method/Signatures/Simple.pm http://search.cpan.org/~rhesa/Method-Signatures-Simple-1.02/... But you might instead want to look at this (or similar with Moose support) to get simple type declarations: http://search.cpan.org/~barefoot/Method-Signatures-20120523/lib/Method/Signatures.pm http://search.cpan.org/~barefoot/Method-Signatures-20120523/...