I am pretty sure (but not positive) the answer is: No, this cant be done.

Calling AUTOLOAD before your parent functions sort of defeats the purpose of inheritance. If this were the case, a parent function would never get called because the AUTOLOAD would get called first. AUTOLOAD is a last ditch effort when *all* else fails, so if perl cannot find the function in the class or anywhere in chain of parents it will call the first AUTOLOAD it finds.

I would recommend just moving the AUTOLOAD to the parent. Or not give the class a parent if you think the class needs to have an AUTOLOAD function.

Another idea is instead of total inheritance you can do cheesy selective pseudo-inheritance, ie only grab the functions you want like:
package B;
*new = \&A::new;

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

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So now your main will do what you want. I have just made &A::new synonomous with &B::new in the symbol table so you only have to maintain one new function. I dont this this would be too much work to just alias the symbols for each function that you want.

In reply to Re: How to call AUTOLOAD before @ISA? by perlmonkey
in thread How to call AUTOLOAD before @ISA? by ZZamboni

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