More solutions, cool :-)

I see that lanX's answer is the "good" clean answer, but i don't like it as a stand-alone answer, as the code then looks ugly (i forgot to say it's a method, not a function) :

$S{light}->($self, 10);
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$self->light(10)
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So, what i did was to use AUTOLOAD, to call these subroutines :

sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self = shift;
    my @args = @_;

    # Retrieve the method name, without the Package name
    my $name = our $AUTOLOAD;
    $name    =~ s/.*://;

    # Check if this is one of the functions we declared
    croak "Undefined method : $name" 
        if !$S{$name};

    # Call the appropriate method
    return $S{$name}->($self, @args);
}
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$obj->light(10);
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Now, the question is : is that clean, and are there "cleaner" (and why) solutions.

I must say i'm not in love with the 'eval' solution ( but it works :-) ).

Would it be cleaner to do

foreach my $name (@names) { 
    my $name = $S{$name};
}
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What about installing them in the import table : is it cleaner than using AUTOLOAD ?

With methods:

use feature ":5.14";
use warnings FATAL => qw(all);
use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(dump);

sub Mine()
 {package __SUB__;
  eval "sub $_ {say \"$_\"}" for qw(hello goodbye);
  bless {}
 }

my $a = Mine();
$a->hello();
$a->goodbye();
  
__END__
Produces:
hello
goodbye
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There is a method to his madness. (Hamlet)

If it's a class, I would consider both the symbol table and the AUTOLOAD ways good; although AUTOLOAD is safer in the respect that it won't override any existing methods.

Personally, I'd just install the methods straight into the symbol table as it feels clean and should be slightly more performant. And safety -- you can avoid overwriting any subroutines at install time:

warn "baz already defined" if defined *{__PACKAGE__ . "::baz" };
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I've shown you two ways and the second works for objects too. (in perl package == class)

Don't know too much about moose.

But if you ask for "the cleanest" approach, better avoid metaprogramming!

Just define two getters and use a fat comma to get rid of the quoting.

$object->cell(light => 10);
$object->time(light => $timestamp);
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I like metaprogramming, but here it's over the top.

And this certainly works with moose too!

Cheers Rolf