Perhaps this is naive, but couldn't something like this be achieved in a
manner similar to how I just implemented it in Ruby?  Surely Perl will have
similar capabilities to handle unknown methods.

class Hash
   def method_missing(method_name)
      str = method.id2name
      if str =~ /^\w+$/ then self[str] else super(method_name) end
   end
end

h = {"foo" => "bar"}
h.foo    # "bar"
h.baz    # nil
h.length # 1
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