One thing to watch out for with this, and with autoload in general is when you have parent / child classes, if your AUTOLOADs actually handle any method calls. You need to be careful that a child AUTOLOAD doesnt die before a parent AUTOLOAD gets a chance to handle the method properly. For example: 
package parent;
...

sub AUTOLOAD {
    our $AUTOLOAD;
    return if ( $AUTOLOAD =~ /DESTROY$/ );

    if ( $AUTOLOAD eq 'handled_func' ) {
        # do something
        return;
    }

    $logger->warn("Tried to call $AUTOLOAD.");
}

...

package child {
...

sub AUTOLOAD {
    our $AUTOLOAD;
    return if ( $AUTOLOAD =~ /DESTROY$/ );
    $logger->warn("Tried to call $AUTOLOAD.");
}

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Now if you call handled_func() on a child object, child::AUTOLOAD will *handle* it by logging the warning, when you probably wanted parent::AUTOLOAD to actually deal with the method call

In reply to Re: How many ways are there to use AUTOLOAD? by shemp
in thread How many ways are there to use AUTOLOAD? by talexb

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