Personally, if I have to uses accessors/mutators, I use the following: 
# Assume I have foo, bar, and baz as my attributes

my $x = $self->foo;  # This retrieves the value in foo
$self->foo(123);     # This sets foo to 123 (and returns $self, to all
+ow for:
$self->foo(123)      # chaining of mutator calls
     ->bar(456);

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Now, I have used generic set/get routines. We had a set() and a get(), that took attribute names. So, you would have: 

my %values;
@values{qw(foo bar baz)} = $self->get(qw(foo bar baz));
$self->set(
    foo => 123,
    bar => 456,
);

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Except, there are a few issues. How do you handle misnamed attributes? What about attributes whose values are arrayrefs? It gets messy. And, it's even worse if you have a single method for doing all accessor/mutator functionality. Personally, I'd recommend against this. Maintainability will suffer.

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In reply to Re: OO Getters/Setters by dragonchild
in thread OO Getters/Setters by theAcolyte

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