There are a couple of other ways to get around this. If you're comfortable mucking about in the symbol table, you can generate your subroutines from a template (especially the "do some checks here" code) and eval() them into being the first time they're needed. I'd do that in a BEGIN block, perhaps. Another option is, of course, delegation -- probably the best approach.

You could also fake inheritance, by not using @ISA, and hard-coding calls to the parent. That would allow you to use AUTOLOAD to generate them. You could even write a dispatcher method, to do all the checks for you, then find the appropriate subroutine. You'd have to pass the name of a method you want, and you could use a hash of sub refs to avoid symbolic references. That's not a bad solution.

But there's no way I'm aware of to call AUTOLOAD before checking the inheritance tree. Code provided for any of these examples if you're really curious.

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

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