in reply to Why does this work? AUTOLOAD sans sub declaration

When I ran your code through B::Deparse, it automagically put a sub keyword before AUTOLOAD. I don't remember this being documented anywhere, though there is plenty of stuff in Perl's documentation that is easy to overlook :)

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