I turn to you wise men for a simple yet effective answer to the burden that has been within my head. Let us suppose that $self is a blessed reference and contains some data 
$self->{'data'}->{'name'} = 'spiros';
$self->{'data'}->{'address'} = 'london';

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In order to keep things tidy, I created the 'name' and 'address' sub which effectively return the values: 
sub name {
  my $self = shift;
  return $self->{'data'}->{'name'};
}

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Is there a more 'elegant' or 'dynamic' way of doing so. Clearly this solution is not scalable in the event that the data structure has, say, 50 attributes since it requires manual declaration. May your life always be in the light. Thank you for your replies :)

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