Sorry, I know this isn't addressing the root of your problem, but have you considered using Class::Std instead of AUTOLOAD? I've been going through 'Perl Best Practices' by Damian Conway, and he says there that 'AUTOLOAD() doesn't promote efficiency, conciseness, robustness, or maintainability, and is best avoided entirely'. In a nutshell, his reasoning is that if there are two or more AUTOLOAD() definitions, the second may be the one you want, but it would never get a chance to handle the method. I think he's implying that it makes it a headache to maintain and could introduce bugs into your code.

Well, I can see value in what he's saying, but I know that every situation is different, e.g. it might be too hard to refactor the code at this point, etc. I get the sense your case may be one of these, but just thought I'd bring it up....

In reply to Re: Detecting assignment event for AUTOLOAD'd lvalue subs ? by bowei_99
in thread Detecting assignment event for AUTOLOAD'd lvalue subs ? by renodino

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