Hi, and many thanks (with a belated Merry Xmas) for the reply. Wish to address it in point form:

1. Using strictures: I did use those strictures (written outside the braces for the package MyDate). My bad for not reproducing it.. So I don't think its about any error being generated because i didn't declare those strictures. Using print rather than say didn't make any difference either.

2. Coderefs: I'm not quite sure what you mean by me not assigning a coderef? I defined the subroutines within my if statements.. so if $method was 'day' wouldn't &$method be calling &day? I did get the desired outputs from the subroutines.. so it seems to me like that wasn't a problem either.

3. Defining subs: I was learning AUTOLOAD (from Intermediate Perl) in the context of dynamically defining new subroutines, while your code only returns the desired value. I presume that means that if I write

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

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I would expect the output

Foo::day was called
26
Foo::month was called
12
26

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rather than the actual output

Foo::day was called
26
Foo::month was called
12
Foo::day was called
26

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Actually I get the impression that AUTOLOAD isn't even being called. Changing the words in my grep statement or writing if ( $method eq "dayz") {...} doesn't produce any errors while changing the name of my subroutine does. So erm...:S why?

In reply to Re^2: say statements within 'sub AUTOLOAD' by ianyappy
in thread say statements within 'sub AUTOLOAD' by ianyappy

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