One problem with the approach you set forth is that it doesn't survive subclassing.

Eh?

use strict;
use warnings;

{
    package Foo;
    
    sub new { bless {}, shift };

    BEGIN {
       no strict 'refs';
       for my $property (qw/foo bar/) {
           *$property = sub : lvalue { $_[0]->{$property} };
       }
    }
}

{
    package Bar;
    use base qw(Foo);
    BEGIN {
       no strict 'refs';
       for my $property (qw/fribble ni/) {
           *$property = sub : lvalue { $_[0]->{$property} };
       }
    }
};

my $o = Bar->new;
$o->foo=1;
$o->bar=2;
$o->fribble=3;
$o->ni=4;
print join(', ', $o->foo, $o->bar, $o->fribble, $o->ni), "\n";

# produces
# 1, 2, 3, 4

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or am I missing something?

In reply to Re^2: $foo->bar = 14; by adrianh
in thread $foo->bar = 14; by Juerd

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