You need to use strictures, which enable messages telling you what's wrong: use strict; use warnings;. You need to import say, eg with use feature 'say';. Also, you didn't assign the coderef to $method, so there's nothing to go to with goto. And since you're (wisely) not doing string eval, you don't need the eval block (but if you do need it for compatibility with other code, check that $method has been assigned a coderef before trying to execute it). And you need to use Carp; if you're going to put it in your code (but the way it's used, die() would be adequate).

See the following: 

#! /usr/bin/env perl

package Foo;
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

sub AUTOLOAD {
    (my $method = our $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
    return if $method eq 'DESTROY';
    
    say "Foo::$method was called";
    
    die "bad method $method\n" if $method ~~ [qw/troz narf/];
        
    if ($method eq 'day') {
        return +(localtime)[3];
    } elsif ($method eq 'month') {
        return +(localtime)[4] + 1;
    }
}

package main;
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

say( Foo->day );
say( Foo->troz );

__END__

Foo::day was called
25
Foo::troz was called
bad method troz

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In reply to Re: say statements within 'sub AUTOLOAD' by Anonymous Monk
in thread say statements within 'sub AUTOLOAD' by ianyappy

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