Dear Monks

I have looked at AUTOLOAD on the perldocs and found this

If an AUTOLOAD is found, this method is called on behalf of the missing method, setting the package global $AUTOLOAD to be the fully qualified name of the method that was intended to be called.

I've tried this

   package mypackage;
   use strict;

   missingsub('a','b');

   sub AUTOLOAD{

       my $args = @_; #I'm getting these args.
       print $AUTOLOAD; #but this gives me a syntex error
                        #Global symbol $AUTOLOAD requires explicit pac
+kage name at..
   }

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Where am I going wrong.

UPDATE$AUTOLOAD is there I can see it in debug but I can only use it with strict off it seems

20040910 Edit by broquaint: Changed title from 'AUTOLOAD not doing what I expected'

In reply to Global symbol $AUTOLOAD requires explicit package name at by Scarborough

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