I am writing an package (object) and was wondering if any monks have an opinon about the best way to access the attributes of the object.

should each attribute have its own accessor method or is it ok (or better) to have one accessor for all the attributes.

That is should my code look like: 

my $name = $object->get_name;
 or
my $name = $object->get('name');
Or something else completely.

Thanks for the input.
(I used <pre> on purpose.)
I did look around. Why get() and set() accessor methods are evil had interesting thoughts, but I think it might be helpful to look at it again.

-- gam3
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In reply to Accessor methods again. by gam3

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