I first created the following accessor that works: 
sub mk_data_accessors
{
    for my $_ (@_) {
        eval qq{
            sub $_ {
                       carp "Warning: '$_' takes at most 2 arguments..
+.\n"
                          if \@_ > 2;

                       my \$self = shift;
                       \$self->{data}->{qw($_)} = shift if \@_;
                       return \$self->{data}->{qw($_)};
                   }
      }; die $@ if $@;
    }
}

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which I call using: 
mk_data_accessors(qw(method1 method2 method3));

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I then tried to 'generalize' by allowing the 'path' to the method to be a variable as follows: 
sub mk_data_accessors2
{
    my $path = shift;
    for my $_ (@_) {
        eval qq{
            sub $_ {
                       carp "Warning: '$_' takes at most 2 arguments..
+.\n"
                          if \@_ > 2;

                       my \$self = shift;
                       \$self->$path{qw($_)} = shift if \@_;
                       return \$self->$path{qw($_)};
                   }
      }; die $@ if $@;
    }
}

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which I called with: 
mk_data_accessors2('{data}->', qw(method1 method2 method3));

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This gave me errors about %path not being defined -- presumably because $path{qw{$_}} is being interpreted as a hash element.
I imagine the solution requires some additional level of 'eval' +/- quoting but I can't seem to figure this out.
Any suggestions?

In reply to Creating flexible method accessor by puterboy

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