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.IX Title "Perl::Critic::Policy::ClassHierarchies::ProhibitAutoloading 3pm"
.TH Perl::Critic::Policy::ClassHierarchies::ProhibitAutoloading 3pm 2023-07-26 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::ClassHierarchies::ProhibitAutoloading \- AUTOLOAD methods should be avoided.
.SH AFFILIATION
.IX Header "AFFILIATION"
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic
distribution.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Declaring a subroutine with the name \f(CW"AUTOLOAD"\fR will violate this
Policy.  The \f(CW\*(C`AUTOLOAD\*(C'\fR mechanism is an easy way to generate methods
for your classes, but unless they are carefully written, those classes
are difficult to inherit from.  And over time, the \f(CW\*(C`AUTOLOAD\*(C'\fR method
will become more and more complex as it becomes responsible for
dispatching more and more functions.  You're better off writing
explicit accessor methods.  Editor macros can help make this a little
easier.
.SH CONFIGURATION
.IX Header "CONFIGURATION"
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative\-software.com>
.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (c) 2006\-2011 Imaginative Software Systems.  All rights reserved.
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.