I just got this message unexpectedly: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method main::consider() is deprecated at H_int2 line 50. Can't locate auto/main/consider.al in @INC (@INC contains: ...)
instead of the expected: Undefined subroutine &main::consider called at H_int2 line 50. After a brief analysis determined that use of Inline::C elsewhere in the program was responsible for diverting the message, a google found this Dec 2001 message from Neil which doesn't seem to have received any answers (<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.inline/923>); :> I get this message when I run the program: :> :> $ perl powerMonitor.pl :> Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method main::allow_access() is deprecated :> at powerMonitor.pl line 25. :> Can't locate auto/main/allow_acces.al in @INC (@INC contains: :> /home/ned/.Inline/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 :> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 :> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 :> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at powerMonitor.pl line 25 : :This annoying message has plagued Inline from the start. Does anyone out :there know how to explicitly disallow inherited AUTOLOADs? I'd much rather :the script just crash. I think the answer is not to mess with inheritance at all: the way this all works is just like the way AutoLoader works, and I'd expect the solution to be the same too. There is a downside though: AutoLoader installs its AUTOLOAD into the calling package if asked to do so, else it requires that you add a couple of (documented) lines into your own AUTOLOAD subroutine - from AutoLoader's synopsis: package Foo; use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD'; # import the default AUTOLOAD subroutine package Bar; use AutoLoader; # don't import AUTOLOAD, define our own sub AUTOLOAD { ... $AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = "..."; goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD; } In the case of Inline::C, I suspect the current behaviour would have to remain the default for backwards compatibility, but I'd like to see the option of requesting a choice of: - export me an AUTOLOAD, leave my @ISA alone - trust me to do the AUTOLOAD myself, and still leave my @ISA alone as alternatives. I think the only tricky bit would be documenting the 'trust me' option, since I'm guessing you'd have to call the AUTOLOAD in the autogenerated compiled package rather than in Inline::C itself, but I haven't looked closely enough at the code to determine that for certain. Yet another approach would be to avoid all this effort to defer loading, forget both AUTOLOAD and @ISA, and export the compiled XS subs and variables into the caller's namespace directly - if deferring the loading is necessary, it isn't that hard for the caller to do it, either with C< eval(q{use Inline 'C' ...}) > or with <C< require Inline; Inline->import(C => ...) >>. Hugo
