nicholas clark suqhccl4org tue nov 06 2007 065413am 0800 josh jore wrote tue nov 06 2007 062551am 0500 john peacock wrote linda walsh via rt wrote perl runtime features turn may seem undefined function stub turn something useful via perls autoload functionality catch undefined subroutines load runtime theres nothing wrong perls oo design isnt going change except much perl6 point opening bugenhancement request apparently person thinks current behavior problem sorry harsh told repeatedly problem interpretation perls object design works perhaps want java c offices hall gosh dunno im pretty sympathetic idea method resolution silently skipping undefined bodies ive gotten impression people responding browbeat linda argue anything technical wouldnt want skip undefined bodies general case write equivalent sub foobar id expect try fooautoload fails fail otherwise might silently hide bug foos autoload else would stub subroutine bar package foo case taking reference undefined subroutine see might want behave differently implied internally represented something different distinguishable stub case methods im sure really gains making method calls name around iirc since 5005 would introduce implementation conceptual complexity nicholas clark thu 07 aug 2008 160113 0000 perl 47181 try oo semantics throwing fatal error