Is this a problem? If $AUTOLOAD operates within an assignment, does it make sense that it use the package providing the assignment?
Does it create cross package problems? In a sense, if you declare the AUTOLOAD, you are overiding the default. You are managing the capability yourself. If there is not a problem in how it works, then it would seem the documentation is in error, and should be clarified. Teal >with perl v5.10.1 on cygwin: > >Documentation about the $AUTOLOAD variable states that it is a package >variable in the same package where the AUTOLOAD routine is found. This >is not always true. Apparently when an AUTOLOAD routine is added by >assignment to glob instead of by declaration, $AUTOLOAD within it is >bound to the package in effect at the assignment. > >It appears that what package $AUTOLOAD binds to is affected by the >subroutine declaration, while the resolution of $AUTOLOAD is governed >by normal scoping rules. > >The documentation seems to say that the package's $AUTOLOAD that gets >the goods is the package where the AUTOLOAD routine was found, but the >above examples where AUTOLOAD is explicitly assigned to a glob instead >of getting declared indicate otherwise. > > > > > >Thoughts? Should I try to escalate this? >_______________________________________________ >kc mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
