An alternate possibility would be to use the magic of the AUTOLOAD subroutine, to access data. This would allow for greater simplicity, when it comes to adding methods.

our $AUTOLOAD;
sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self = shift;
    ref($self) or return;    # Non-OO/Not an autoloaded method..?

    return if ( $AUTOLOAD =~ /DESTROY/ );   # don't mess with garbage 
+collection

    ( my $method = $AUTOLOAD ) =~ s{.*::}{};

    my ( $code, $name, $ATTRname );
    
    if ( $method =~ /get_(\w+)/ ) {
        my $ATTRname = lc($1);
    #  Could possibly do a check to make sure we have one of a group o
+f specific
    #  attributes with.
    #  
    #  if ( $ATTRname =~ /^(?:html_error_string|error_type|password_va
+lid|user_id
    #                  |other|stuff|you|want|to|access)$/x
    #  ) {}

        no strict qw{refs};

        # create and register the method
        *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub {
            my $self = shift;
            return $self->{$ATTRname};
        };

        unshift @_, $self;

        goto &{$AUTOLOAD};

    }

    return;

}
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