Re: A working strategy to handle AUTOLOAD, can(), and (multiple) inheritance without touching UNIVERSAL?

A trick that's useful in some circumstances is to declare the subs to be autoloaded.

$ perl -le'
    sub AUTOLOAD { print "Loading $AUTOLOAD" }
    sub foo;
    __PACKAGE__->can("foo")->();
'
Loading main::foo
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Re^2: A working strategy to handle AUTOLOAD, can(), and (multiple) inheritance without touching UNIVERSAL? by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Aug 31, 2009 at 19:52 UTC
Yeah. If I could predict or control what functions can be used I would not autoload. Generally you can so I think autoloading should be rare. Where I have found it useful is in enabling much looser coupling.	[reply]

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