@_ will still have an element in it after shifting off $self, so the old favourite:
sub foo { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{foo} = shift; } $self->{foo}; # or $self; }
Will still have something to assign.
While I'm not a golfer and am usually all for readable code, that has to be too much code for just an accessor :)
sub foo { @_==2 ? shift->{foo} = shift : shift->{foo} }
Assuming you don't return the object.
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