Ooops, what I Really meant was i did (use strict;use warnings;use 5.010;use Carp;) :) Not used to the lingo.

Now I understand what you mean by eval strings, I didn't realize the significance (eval q{} vs eval{}) but I do now.

I tried calling the method dynamically without using references. It seems to work just as fine: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use 5.010;
use warnings;
use Carp;
{ package Foo;
    our $AUTOLOAD;
    sub AUTOLOAD {
        eval { sub foo { sub bar { return 'BAR'; }  return 'FOO'; } };
+ 
        print qq{AUTOLOADing '$AUTOLOAD'};
        my $method = $AUTOLOAD;
        $method =~ s/.*:://;
        $method eq 'baz' ? eval q{sub baz{ return uc $AUTOLOAD }} :die
+ "Invalid method.";
        goto &$method;
    }
}
 print 'foo? ', exists &Foo::foo;  say Foo->foo;
 print 'bar? ', exists &Foo::bar;  say Foo->bar;
 print 'baz? ', exists &Foo::baz;  say Foo->baz;
 print 'baz? ', exists &Foo::baz;  say Foo->baz; 

######OUTPUT#####
foo? 1FOO
bar? 1BAR
baz? AUTOLOADing 'Foo::baz'FOO::BAZ  #AUTOLOADING prints once
baz? 1FOO::BAZ

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In reply to Re^4: say statements within 'sub AUTOLOAD' by ianyappy
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