note tilly I would not use an AUTOLOAD for this. I would follow the strategy of typeglobbing closures that I give at [id://407228]. For one discussion of how AUTOLOAD and OO don't always play ball together see [id://342804]. The hope that I had of making them play that I discuss there didn't work out, see [id://344294] for why not. (Without solving that problem I'm <b>not</b> going to release a module on CPAN that creates a UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD! But hey, I just realized that I could install the AUTOLOAD elsewhere...hmmm...)<p> <b>UPDATE:</b> That realization is now [cpan://Class::AutoloadCAN]. 446067 446067