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+Its possible to accidentally inherit an AUTOLOAD method. Often this
+will happen if a class somewhere in the chain uses AutoLoader or
+defines one of their own. This can lead to confusing error messages
+when method lookups fail.
+
+Sometimes you want to avoid this accidental inheritance. In that
+case, inherit from Class::WhiteHole. All unhandled methods will
+produce normal Perl error messages.