I'm a newbie trying out the AUTOLOAD subroutine.. I can't figure out why the say statement does not work when AUTOLOAD is invoked? Appreciate any help 

{ package MyDate;
    sub AUTOLOAD {
        our $AUTOLOAD;
        say "Going into AUTOLOAD";  # Why doesn't this print?
        my $method = $AUTOLOAD;
        $method =~ s/.*:://;
        grep {$method eq $_} qw/yak day month/ or Carp::croak "Invalid
+ method: $method.";
        if ($method eq "day") {
            eval {
                sub day {(localtime)[3];}
            };
        }
        elsif ($method eq "month") {
            eval {
                sub month {(localtime)[4] + 1;}
            };
        }
        Carp::croak $@ if $@;
        goto &$method;
    }
}
######################################################################
+##################
say MyDate->day;        
say MyDate->month;

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The output is just 

25
12

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In reply to say statements within 'sub AUTOLOAD' by ianyappy

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