Larry Wall wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:09:42PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote:
> : S10 talks about how it is AUTOSUB vs AUTOMETH (and others), but AUTOLOAD 
> : is still around. S10 doesn't mention it, but I think it's been said that 
> : AUTOLOAD only gets called as a last resort.
> 
> Really, the only point of keeping AUTOLOAD around is to make it easier
> to translate Perl 5 to Perl 6.  AUTOSUB and friends have the spiffy
> reference-returning semantics everyone wants.  I'd like the translator
> to be able to turn "goto &foo" into "&foo.tailcall" or some such,
> and otherwise leave AUTOLOAD alone.
> 
>   
> 

Should we then perhaps rename it to: DEPRECATED_PERL5_AUTOLOAD ?

-- Rod Adams