[tomafro]

I can see how method_missing can break introspection, but I don't see how the same is true for Autoload. Could you give an example?

[draegtun]

I believe jrockway is referring to AUTOLOAD in Perl (ie. its equivalent of Ruby's method_missing).

ref: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Autoloading