While it's probably true that unconditional jumps should be avoided, I'm not against goto "a priori". And, since we're talking about Perl's goto, a mention of the goto &NAME idiom is in order: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use vars qw/$AUTOLOAD/;

sub AUTOLOAD 
{
    $AUTOLOAD =~ /.*::(.*)/;
    my $name = $1;

    print "It looks like you're trying to call $name...\n";

    no strict 'refs';
    *{ "main::$name" } = 
        sub { 
            print "Hey, I've been called by ", (caller)[0], 
                  ", and here my arguments: @_\n";
        };

    goto &{ "main::$name" }; # The brand new sub can't realize it has
                             # been actually called from somewhere
                             # else
}

foo( "Hello", "World" );
foo( "Howdy, world" ); # I call foo() again, this time it exists

sub bar
{
    foo( "See you, world" ); 
}


bar();

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In reply to Re: Re: goto with some arguments by larsen
in thread goto with some arguments by Anonymous Monk

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