$name =~ s/.*:://o;
confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
+ # this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
+ # from OO Perl - Conway
+ *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub {@_ > 1 ? $_[0]->{$name} = $_[1] : $_[0]->{$name}} ;
@_ ? $self->{$name} = shift : $self->{$name} ;
}