I'm not the author of the code :-)

Personally I very rarely generate accessors - not because I dislike generating them, but because I so rarely have a situation where bare-access to the object attributes is appropriate.

Since many perl coders seem to spend a lot of time worrying about generating accessors I guess I must be weird!

That said, the times I have generated accessors I've not come across debugging issues. I'm curious what problems you've encountered - can you illustrate?