Hi,

Is there a way to make Perl call a class' AUTOLOAD method before going up on @ISA? For example, in the following code: 

package A;

sub new {
  my $class=shift;
  my $self={};
  bless $self, $class;
  return $self;
}

sub doit { print "doit in A\n"; }

package B;

@ISA=qw(A);

sub AUTOLOAD {
  print "autoload in B, called as $AUTOLOAD\n";
}

package main;

$a=B->new;
$a->doit;

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I get the following output: 
doit in A
autoload in B, called as B::DESTROY

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What I would like is to have it call AUTOLOAD on B when doit is not found, before looking for it in A, so that I get: 
autoload in B, called as B::doit
autoload in B, called as B::DESTROY

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Can this be done?

Thanks a lot,

--ZZamboni

In reply to How to call AUTOLOAD before @ISA? by ZZamboni

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