Cool, this is a very good idea for accessors. Thanks davorg (and Damien). I think I will start tweaking the code we have here to match.

But for our problem mentioned before (the DB result objects) the overhead of the funtion calls alone vs directly access the data structure was twice as slow. I tested by actually creating the accessors without the use of AUTOLOAD. But that is the price to pay for OOP modularity, and generally well worth the performance price.