> You had to use :any to get this behaviour:

Didn't see this, because :any is not documented in CGI , though -any is as a "pragma" (and mentioned in your blog-post)

There is also a mention of -compile , which means AUTOLOAD isn't needed to create the HTML-DSL.

IOW you could¹ get rid of AUTOLOAD without deprecating HTML-subs, just by making -compile the default.

But if you meant to deprecate the -autoload pragma, this seems to be a good idea.

Installing an AUTOLOAD into the importing namespace sounds like a very hazardous hack.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

PS: Je suis Charlie!

¹) I don't say "should" :)

update

After reading your blog-post again (>4th time) I'm puzzled. You only say you are disabling AUTOLOAD but not that you are deprecating precompiled HTML-subs in general.

Did I misunderstand you? Maybe you could clarify.

In reply to Re^8: Removing AUTOLOAD from CGI.pm (updated) by LanX
in thread Removing AUTOLOAD from CGI.pm by leej

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