On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:07:25 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>Why not have the return value of AUTOLOAD decide if the search for
>AUTOLOAD should continue ?
AUTOLOAD doesn't explicitely return. It jumps into the loaded routine,
and that one can return whatever it likes. No way to distinguish it from
whatever AUTLOAD would return. Unless... I almost daren't say it...
unless AUTOLOAD would set a certain variable on failure. Yes, the ugly
feature of the $AUTOLOAD variable extended. By default it would be
cleared on startup, so it's very much backward compatible.
--
Bart.
