In Perl, of course it's possible, but I'd say it's not a best practice. Do you really want to have a bunch of scalars floating around? It kind of goes against the idea of keeping your properties all neatly tied up in objects. See How can I use a variable as a variable name? but more importantly Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name'.

So how many values are there that you want to access, and how often are you interpolating them into strings? Personally, I don't mind print "Foo=", $obj->get_foo, "\n";, consider getting used to it for simple cases. Otherwise, a few ideas:

• Use printf+map: printf "foo=%s, bar=%s, quz=%s\n", map {$obj->${\"get_$_"}} qw/foo bar quz/;
• Use a hash: my %h = map {$_=>$obj->${\"get_$_"}} qw/foo bar quz/; print "foo=$h{foo}, bar=$h{bar}, quz=$h{quz}\n";
• Use a proper templating engine.

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