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in reply to Re^6: Removing AUTOLOAD from CGI.pm (flexibility?)
in thread Removing AUTOLOAD from CGI.pm

You had to use :any to get this behaviour:

$ pmvers CGI 3.59 $ perl -E 'use CGI qw/:any/; say CGI->new->wibble({foo=>"bar"},"baz")' <wibble foo="bar">baz</wibble>