Yep, and for my purposes (see post elsewhere in this thread), that's fine with me. Although according to the Liskov Substitution Principle, I'd be throwing exceptions that I shouldn't be (if the method is called independently though I don't expect it to be), which is a bad thing, although I don't mind in this case.

And AUTOLOAD kind of breaks the whole "can()" thing anyway...(or is it the other way round?)