in reply to AUTOLOAD and packages

if we'll see into perlref.pod and search for substring {CODE} and read around a bit, then we'll calmly understand that we're able to do following trick:
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 { print "do first\n"; #now call old one and print that returned value inside '[]' print '[', $aasub->(), "]\n"; print "do last\n"; }; package main; # again flurfish_sub();
in my case output is
do first [old-main-autoload] do last
But my personal advice - you're moving to C-like area or even assembler code catching area when you will really soon will complicate logic.
I think when you will see that code in your program then it is a good signal to redesign your code.
:)

Best wishes,
Vadim.