confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
# this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
# from OO Perl - Conway
confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
# this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
# from OO Perl - Conway