[rt.cpan.org #123906] AUDOLOAD constants have unexpected behaviour

[email protected] ("Henrik Pauli via RT") Mon, 18 Dec 2017 04:12:05 -0500

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Mon Dec 18 04:12:05 2017: Request 123906 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by ralesk
       Queue: Win32-Sound
     Subject: AUDOLOAD constants have unexpected behaviour
   Broken in: 0.49
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123906 >


I ran into an issue while having a brain fart and misusing the binary operators in our software — wrote about it in http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1205583

While indeed the & operator shouldn't be used between these flags, I think this is a bit of a problem.

Is it necessary to use AUTOLOAD or could these constants be made proper use constant stuff with a void prototype instead?