in reply to how to goto &sysread ?

I'll have to agree with Anonymous Monk---using goto is frowned upon; however, there are times when you want to "pretend". In that case, I'd use AutoLoader. Here's an example where I follow the docs: 
package Foo;
use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOADER';

package Bar;
use AutoLoader;

AUTOLOAD();
print "OK...Done!\n" unless $@;

__END__

sub AUTOLOAD {
    $AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = "CORE::sysread",
    goto \&AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD;
}

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Re^2: how to goto &sysread ?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 25, 2011 at 01:37 UTC

    using goto is frowned upon

    Using goto to control flow is often frowned upon (even when it shouldn't be), but goto &name; doesn't do that.

    vthere are times when you want to pretend that you used a subroutine but didn't.

    goto &name; does the opposite. It removes a subroutine that did get called from the call stack.

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