You are completely right. I should not get a
warning for correct code. Because of this, I switch the
warning on and use strict.
However, the UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD method provides a
functionality (to catch all missing routintes in
one place) that I need and that Perl has decided
to drop in the future. So, while it is still there, I want
to use it and Perl wants to warn me that in future the code
might break. I read the warning and want to suppress it
now. Still other warnings should be displayed and fixed in
the code.
As it stands, every piece of code that calls a
function could trigger UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD and thus be
"offending".
Maybe there is a way to keep the UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD feature
in Perl ...
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