You could use AUTOLOAD to avoid hacking the symbol table.

Update:
One of our fellow monks asked for an example. So here is very simplified one. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use v5.12;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';

package Attr;
use Carp;

my %attr = (one => 1, two => 2);

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    bless {}, $class;
}

our $AUTOLOAD;

# Generic setter/getter
sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self = shift;
    my $called = $AUTOLOAD =~ s/.*:://r;

    croak "$AUTOLOAD: no such method" unless exists $attr{$called};

    if (@_ > 0) {
        $self->{$called} = shift;
    } else {
        return $self->{$called};
    }
}

package main;

my $attr = Attr->new;
$attr->one('uno');
say $attr->one;

eval {say $attr->three};
say $@ if $@;

__DATA__
uno
Attr::three: no such method at /home/jo/Programs/play-scripts/pm-11125
+489.pl line 38.

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Greetings,
-jo

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In reply to Re: Dynamically generate setter/getter methods [Updated] by jo37
in thread Dynamically generate setter/getter methods by stevieb

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