AUTOLOADED pre- and post- handler methods?

[Dan Sugalski]

Here's a question for the python/ruby folks.

I know (now) that python lets you have an interceptor method that gets called before a named method is called even. Does it allow this method to be generated by the generic fallback method?

In Perl terms, assume we have a method PRE that gets called before any method in a class is called, and AUTOLOAD which is called if you call a method on a class and that method doesn't exist. Does AUTOLOAD have to get called to check for PRE if PRE doesn't exist in a class?
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