sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self = shift;
    (my $func = $Class::Tables::AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
    
    croak qq{Can't locate object method "$func" via package "$self"}
        unless ref $self and UNIVERSAL::isa( $self, "Class::Tables" );

    unshift @_, $self, $func;
    goto &field;
}