This would be an example of why moving more and more dispatch logic into AUTOLOAD leads to problems.

You have a complex AUTOLOAD that already does two very different things. It defines a series of constants. And you have a set of functions that are only loaded if they are used. Unless you've written out all of the tie methods and AutoSplit them for AutoLoader to find, you haven't implemented a tie interface. So making this do that is not just a question of making a small modification to this AUTOLOAD routine.

Making things worse, ABC is not inherited by the classes that you want to be able to tie to. So if you want to use AUTOLOAD, you have to write a new AUTOLOAD that is in that class, or in a superclass that is loaded from that class. Which lead to your original question that you didn't know how to write said AUTOLOAD.

So show me how to write the AUTOLOAD you want to write, and I'll show you how to convert it. Otherwise look at the template I wrote, and try to write get_sub which will, for instance, take "XYZ::ABC::Array" and "STORE" as arguments, then returns an anonymous subroutine.

In reply to Re^3: Autoloading tie routines by tilly
in thread Autoloading tie routines by cmac

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