I have a very basic AUTOLOAD function to generate accessor methods for each of the 300 variables in my class. I'd like to export these methods so that the caller can simply use Function_Name() rather than $object->Function_Name(). Engineers, not programmers, are going to be maintaining this code and I'd like to make things easy as to avoid as many calls as possible.

Also, every time I generate an AUTOLOAD() function I add it to the symbol table like this:

*{$AUTOLOAD} = sub { return $_[0]->{$attr} };

How do you export AUTOLOADed functions, though? Exporting preloaded functions is easy but I can't quite figure out how to do the same for autoloaded ones.

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