Re: a simple matter of elegance

[snoopy]

You could create closures for each of the attributes and add them to the package's namespace:

package Foo;
use warnings; use strict;

foreach my $att (qw/name address age sex geek_code/) {

  no strict 'refs';

  *$att = sub {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->{data}->{$att};
  };

}