use strict; use warnings; package Class::SomeMethodMaker; sub create_accessor { my %hash = (); return sub { my ($self, $value) = @_; $hash{$self} = $value if @_ > 1; return $hash{$self}; } } package MyClass; { no strict 'refs'; *{"MyClass::colour"} = Class::SomeMethodMaker::create_accessor; } sub new {bless {}, shift} 1; __END__ #### use strict; use warnings; use MyClass; for my $colour (qw /green yellow/) { my $obj = MyClass->new; $obj->colour($colour) unless $obj->colour; print $obj->colour, "\n"; } __END__