OK... I confess... I'm lazy...

Given I have a module defined such that:

package BigThing;

sub new {
      shift;
      my $self={
            field1 => 0,
            field2 => "",
            field3 => 0x0 
      };
      bless $self,"BigThing";

      return $self;
}

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and in my module I want to provide a method such that calling:

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my $thing = new BigThing();
$thing->field1(10);
printf "%s\n",$thing->field2;
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but in my real module I have a lot of fields to create accessors for. Being that I'm lazy I don't want to have to write every single accessor method myself.

Did I dream this or did I see something somewhere where there was a trick or a CPAN module I could use that would invoke some sort of magic to make it appear that I wrote all those accessors and have the code behave as such by writing ONE sub that acts like them all?

Anybody know of such a thing?

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