Given this script: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

use Greeting;


say 'Hi';
{
    my $g = Greeting->new;
}
say 'Bye';

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and this module: 
package Greeting;
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use Data::Dumper;

sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;

    return bless {}, $class;
}   

sub AUTOLOAD {
    our $AUTOLOAD;
    say $AUTOLOAD;
}
DESTROY {
   say 'destroy';
}

1;

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I can see the word "destroy" printed as I would expect. However, if I remove the DESTROY from the module I don't see AUTOLOAD being called instead of the missing DESTROY. I only checked it with 5.20.1 but I wonder what am I missing here?

Update

Reported with perlbug as RT #124387

In reply to DESTROY and AUTOLOAD in 5.20.1 by szabgab

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