use strict; package main; sub AUTOLOAD { return 'old-main-autoload'; } package mypackage; # let's capture that ::AUTOLOAD my $aasub = *{$::{AUTOLOAD}}{CODE}; # now let's, as we decided earlier, have it overloaded *::AUTOLOAD = sub { # here how we overload it: print "do first\n"; #call old one and print that returned value inside '[]' print '[', $aasub->(), "]\n"; print "do last\n"; }; package main; # again flurfish_sub(); #### do first [old-main-autoload] do last