cannot AUTOLOAD a method called VERSION

Sorry to send this direct, the machine that has 5.8.1 on it can't see
the outside world.

It appears that AUTOLOAD will never see a request for a method (an
autogenerated external data dictionary accessor in my case) called
'VERSION'. It will simply bypass it and try to return the (usually
non-existant) scalar $FOO::VERSION (and, failed, the error message
associated with that).

This is fixed by having an explicit method called VERSION in one
of the ancestors (ie: sub VERSION {...}). 

I wonder what other 'magical' names there are?

Dirk
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• cannot AUTOLOAD a method called VERSION by Dirk Koopman
• Re: cannot AUTOLOAD a method called VERSION by Michael G Schwern
• Re: cannot AUTOLOAD a method called VERSION by Graham Barr