I am using a third-party module that uses AUTOLOAD to allow you to call options in a "convenient" way.

The autoload isn't needed -- you can set the options with an explicit $obj->options() method, but the author I guess thought it'd be nice to allow $obj->some_random_option() calls and used AUTOLOAD for this.

Yuck.

And the author's AUTOLOAD doesn't check anything, it just dispatches everything to  $obj->option(some_random_option=>blah blah), without checking if  some_random_option is supported.

I'm encountering some errors in the module, which I don't fully understand yet, which lead to the objects unexpected demise, which leads to a DESTROY call, which AUTOLOAD happily dispatches to options.

Yuck again.

Is there a way for me, while debugging, to mangle the symbol table to remove Foo::Bar::Baz::AUTOLOAD subroutine?

I do not / can not modify Foo/Bar/Baz.pm.

Thanks!

water

PS I think I recall in Damian's PBP Dog book, he states AUTOLOADs are bad, and I agree! Too much magick.

In reply to removing someone elses AUTOLOAD by water

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