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First of all, thanks! This is indeed what I want to achieve. The UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD sub will of course do more checking than just this to implement what I want.

However, like you said, this may not be a good idea. What if more people start using this scheme? Then things will break immediately. I'm pretty sure I can catch that by checking if UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD has already been defined (right?).

nevertheless this may just be the push in the right direction I need


Jouke Visser
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Re^3: Creating packages on the fly
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 06, 2006 at 09:22 UTC

    Yeah, I can't see any reason why you couldn't (say in the import() of the module that defines this) save any existing UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD and then call that at some point in your version, of course you might be stuffed if (as some more normal AUTOLOAD subroutines do) it does goto &{$AUTOLOAD};. However I don't actually know of anything that uses this hack in the wild.

    /J\

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