Steve Lane writes: |while (<DATA>) { | chomp; | no strict qw/refs/; # the next line is a symref | &$_; |} |sub AUTOLOAD { | print "Sorry, I don't see a subroutine called '$AUTOLOAD'\n"; |} And hope that __DATA__ doesn't contain the name of some unrelated sub in main... Brian ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? ==== Well, if you insist... Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to ==== fwp-request@technofile.org