perl 5.003_06: lib/AutoLoader.pm

perl 5.003_06: lib/AutoLoader.pm

Date: Mon Sep  9 09:29:44 1996
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent

> This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>

The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
filename manipulations:

Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix

It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
function.  With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit
from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems.

This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by
updating its documentation.