Read through his code and error message again. hackdaddy already has $AUTOLOAD declared properly, otherwise the first method call would fail, but according to hackdaddy, it's successful. However, read through the text of the actual error message.

Can't use string ("WM::Install::Table::ArchiveTbl") as a HASH ref whil
+e "strict refs" in use 
at /u08/pkg/wms/wmcmtools/modules/WM/Install/Table/ArchiveTbl.pm line 
+192.

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Now look at first few lines of the autoload.

sub AUTOLOAD {
    my ($self, $newval) = @_;
    
    $AUTOLOAD =~ /.*::get(_\w+)/
        and $self->_accessible($1)
        and return $self->{$1};

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As you can see, the return statement (return $self->{$1}) is attempting to use $self as a hashref. Since the error messsage shows that the programmers is trying to use the package name as a hashref, we clearly have the package name and not the object being passed as the first argument to AUTOLOAD. I was using a generic constructor to illustrate how the first argument could be a package name instead of an object, as expected.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re(3): Autoload'ed class method calls by Ovid
in thread Autoload'ed class method calls by hackdaddy

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