The POD perlsub says that you can't a reference to a built in function using the syntax \&CORE::die. 
...
Even though it looks like a regular function call, it
isn't: you can't take a reference to it, 
such as the incorrect "\&CORE::open" might appear to produce.
...

To get around this you could use an anonymous subroutine as the value to $DEFAULT_HANDLER. 

our $DEFAULT_HANDLER = sub { die @_ };

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Making this change seems to work. 

bruce:1:~/tmp $ cat p.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
# vim: sw=4

use strict;
use warnings;

package fred;

our $DEFAULT_HANDLER = sub { die @_ };
our $AUTOLOAD;

sub AUTOLOAD {
    print STDERR "AUTOLOAD(@_) - $AUTOLOAD\n";
    my $self = shift;
    $DEFAULT_HANDLER->('died via indirection');
}

package main;

my $fred = fred->raise_exception("some test");
bruce:1:~/tmp $ ./p.pl
AUTOLOAD(fred some test) - fred::raise_exception
died via indirection at ./p.pl line 9.
bruce:1:~/tmp $

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In reply to Re: Problem using code ref's in AUTOLOAD by bruceb3
in thread Problem using code ref's in AUTOLOAD by Bloodnok

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