Dear monks,
I've got the following problem: I want to build generic object interfaces with autoload, and create an entry in the symbol-table with the first emulation. This works fine, but I need to turn off strict refs, als shown in the following code example:

#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $test = Test->new();
$test->print("hello\n");
$test->print("hello2\n");
$test->print("hello3", "hello4\n");
# ============================================================
package Test;
# ------------------------------------------------------------
sub new { # any constructor
    my ($proto) = shift;
    my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
    my $parent = ref($proto) && $proto;
    my $self;
    $self = {};            # create a new object
    bless($self, $class);
} # new
# ------------------------------------------------------------    
sub AUTOLOAD {
    use vars qw($AUTOLOAD);
    my ($self, @params) = @_;
    my ($method) = (split(/::/, $AUTOLOAD))[-1];
    print "AUTOLOAD: $AUTOLOAD\nSELF: $self\n";
    print "METHOD: $method\nPARAMS: @params\n";

    # create code
    my $code = sub { 
                     my ($self, @params) = @_; 
                     print @params, "\n";
                   };

    $self->$code(@params); # execute for the first time

    # and add it to symbol table
    no strict 'refs';
    *{$method} = $code;
    use strict 'refs';

} # AUTOLOAD
# ------------------------------------------------------------
sub DESTROY { # don't autoload DESTROY :-)
  # ...
} # DESTROY
# ------------------------------------------------------------
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Do you know how am I able to do so without turning off strict refs?

Thanks in advance,

perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

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