The reason for the appearance of the warning is that the test code does not use warnings. test.pl is run without warnings, whereas t/blah.t is run with warnings enabled. If you add use warnings to test.pl you get the same issue. It seem to me anyone that uses this module with warnings enabled is going to get this warning unless they also supress it or don't use warnings. All you need to make it go away is simple no warnings before setting @ISA for package C. This is valid as the Module requires 5.6+ For package D the second argument of @ISA is obviously not evaluated as it does not generate a warning.

use Test;
BEGIN { plan tests => 3 };
use Class::Dynamic;
use warnings;   # added to show point

ok(1);

our $testval = time & 1;

package A; sub number { return 12 }
package B; sub number { return 42 }

package C; no warnings; @ISA = ( sub { $main::testval ? "A" : "B" } );
package D; @ISA = ( "A", sub { $main::testval ? "A" : "B" } );

package main;

ok (C->number == ($testval ? 12 : 42));
ok (D->number == 12);
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It seems that Simon didn't use warnings anywhere, and I am guessing that the top of your .t file might have #!/usr/bin/perl -w or similiar. You will likely need to surpress the warnings within the module itself with a no warnings right after the no strict in UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD (although I have not tested this myself). This will at least just disable them for the scope of UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD. However if you wanted to get specific, you could figure out which sub-warning this comes from and do use warnings 'something', so that you were not supressing any other valid warnings.

My guess is that those warnings maybe didn't show up in the version of perl that Simon used to write this (what was in common usage in mid. 2002?).