NAME

UNIVERSAL::canAUTOLOAD - installs a UNIVERSAL::can that respects AUTOLOAD subs

SYNOPSIS

use UNIVERSAL::canAUTOLOAD;

package MyModule;

sub DESTROY {}
sub AUTOLOAD {
    our $AUTOLOAD;
    print "in AUTOLOAD for $AUTOLOAD\n";
}

my $object = bless {}, 'MyModule';
my $method = $object->can( 'potato' ); # returns a true value
$object->$method();                    # call the AUTOLOADed potato method

DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

Class::ISA
Test::More

INSTALLATION

perl Build.PL
perl Build test

and if all goes well

perl Build install

HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

0.01 Monday 10th November, 2003

Initial release
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AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> original need and anticipated documentation from Mark Fowler.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

"can" in UNIVERSAL