The following modification does not assign to a glob. Do this avoid the cache reset issue? 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Want;

sub lvalueMethod($) {
    my ($name)    = @_;
    my ($package) = caller;

    no strict 'refs';
    *{$package . "::" . $name} = sub :lvalue {
        my $self = shift;
        if (!want('LVALUE') && ref($self->{$name}) eq 'CODE') {
            goto &{$self->{$name}};
        }
        $self->{$name};
    };
}

{
    package Foo;

    sub new { bless {}, shift; }
    main::lvalueMethod("bar");
}

my ($x) = Foo->new();
print "$x\n";
$x->bar = 5;
print $x->bar, "\n";
$x->bar = sub { print( @_, "\n" ); };
$x->bar("Hello World");

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In reply to Re^4: defining methods on the fly by jdhedden
in thread defining methods on the fly by flogic

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