Since there is no agreement on what "all the standard subroutines" should contain, there is no way you can autoload them.Also it would be quite rare that you need "all the standard subroutines" (whatever they may be) in the same script.
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Just to labour the point, I ran this code against the ./lib of the 5.8.8 source to get a rough idea of the number of subs in the core modules:
use File::Find;
find(\&wanted,'.');
print "Total = $counter\n";
sub wanted
{
if ($_ =~/(?:\.pl|\.pm)/)
{
open (my $fh,"<",$_) or die "$!";
while (<$fh>)
{
if ($_ =~/^sub\s+/){$counter++}
}
close $fh;
}
}
It reported 5394 subs. Importing that lot could use a *lot* of RAM, and take a while to compile ;-)
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