On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:37:31PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
>  On 6/20/05, chromatic <chromatic@[...].org> wrote:
>  > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:11 +0200, Juerd wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I think there exists an even simpler way to avoid any mess involved.
>  > > Instead of letting AUTOLOAD receive and pass on arguments, and instead
>  > > of letting AUTOLOAD call the loaded sub, why not have AUTOLOAD do its
>  > > thing, and then have *perl* call the sub?
>  > 
>  > Who says AUTOLOAD will always either call a loaded sub or fail?
>  
>  Uh, what else can it do?  It doesn't have to load a sub to return a
>  code reference.
>  
>  Luke

I recall Damian using AUTOLOAD (in perl5) to evaluate the
result of the function call without loading a function with the
given name.  This was to allow arbitrary names to be invoked,
when the same name is unlikely to be used again.  This was
basically a method that took a string contant argument, but
it used the method name as the constant and didn't need to
specify a name for the actual ccmmon method.

I'm not certain that this is actually a worth supporting, it's
more of a golf/obfuscation technique than a significant tool,
unless there are additional clever uses of the technique that
go beyond this basic trick.

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