Re: error handling and syntax extension

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:49:15PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> 
> 
> or AUTOLOAD can be defined in terms of C<catch>
> and overloaded that way, rather than being its own
> kind of magic.
> 
> 	catch "AUTOLOAD-$classname-$polymorphicsignature" {...

But why should I have to know that a sub I want to call has to
be AUTOLOADed ? That is an implementation detail of a module
that I as a user should not need to know

Graham.