Like yosefm already mentioned, you never actually call anything from AUTOLOAD. Here's a simple (only slightly tested) AUTOLOAD I used for a wrapper class:

sub AUTOLOAD {
   my $method = substr($AUTOLOAD, rindex($AUTOLOAD, '::')+2);
   my $code_ref = DBI::db->can($method);

   if (!$code_ref) {
      require Carp;
      Carp::croak("Undefined subroutine $method called");
   }

   # This only works with methods,
   # and only if they are non-static
   # (just like your code).
   local $_[0] = $_[0]->{DBH};
   
   goto($code_ref);
}

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I avoided regexps in case the clobber $1 and similar vars in the caller.

Update: If you wanted to create stubs for possible efficiency:

sub AUTOLOAD {
   my $method = substr($AUTOLOAD, rindex($AUTOLOAD, '::')+2);
   my $code_ref = DBI::db->can($method);

   if (!$code_ref) {
      require Carp;
      Carp::croak("Undefined subroutine $method called");
   }

   my $stub = sub {
      # This only works with methods,
      # and only if they are non-static
      # (just like your code).
      local $_[0] = $_[0]->{DBH};
      &$code_ref;

   };

   { no strict 'refs'; *$method = $stub; }

   goto($stub);
}

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In reply to Re: Using AUTOLOAD to create class methods by ikegami
in thread Using AUTOLOAD to create class methods by radiantmatrix

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