AUTOLOAD

[Dirk Koopman]

Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2007, at 13:43, bah at longitude.com wrote:
>>> Specifically, a child's AUTOLOAD will block a parent's AUTOLOAD, and
>>> there is no convention for passing AUTOLOAD requests between AUTOLOADs
>>> (equivalent of the ->SUPER::* or ->NEXT::* invocations for passing
>>> ordinary method calls up the inheritance tree).
>>
>> That's not to say that it isn't possible.  Check XML::Generator's 
>> "STACKED
>> AUTOLOADs".
> 
> Of course it's possible. As already mentioned on this thread Class::Std 
> implements a solution to the problem too. The point is that there's no 
> *standard* way to percolate unhandled AUTOLOADs up the inheritance 
> chain. If you allow for the possibility of multiple inheritance it's not 
> entirely trivial to do either.
> 

Er.. are you sure? AFAIK AUTOLOAD will simply use the *standard* 
inheritance rules as documented in perloo et al.

Not that I have tried it ever (because I don't generally need to go 
there) but why can one not call SUPER::AUTOLOAD? AUTOLOAD is just a 
method (albeit a special one with an extra calling convention) after all?