On 6/21/05, Adam Kennedy <cpan@[...].as>  wrote:
>  You are of course assuming that every use of AUTOLOAD, for all time,
>  will result in
>  
>  a) Calling another function
>  b) An error
>  
>  Wouldn't this lead to hacks where people do things like this just to
>  prevent perl thinking it's a failure?
>  
>  sub AUTOLOAD ($whatever) {  # but no *@_
>        my $s = get_subref_for $whatever;
>        our &::($whatever) := $s;
>        return sub () { 1 };
>  }
>  
>  The ability to get complete control over the params and context of the
>  function, and maybe run something else AFTER the function call is important.

I think people are being pretty closed-minded about closures.  If it
comes down to it, you can always get your good old Perl 5 AUTOLOAD
like this:

    sub AUTOLOAD ($whatever) { sub (*@_) {
        ...
    } }

Luke