Perl Programming/Keywords/AUTOLOAD

The AUTOLOAD keyword

AUTOLOAD is a keyword that is used to mark a subroutine for autoloading. This subroutine is called, if a subroutine that doesn't exist was called with exactly the same number of arguments.

Syntax

  sub AUTOLOAD BLOCK

Examples

sub AUTOLOAD {
  my $callit = $AUTOLOAD;
  […]
  system($callit, @_);
}