note apotheon <p><blockquote><em>Decide how you want inheritance to work, and you can implement it with closures.</em></blockquote> That's just it &mdash; I don't know yet, and it's the question I seek to answer by way of this discussion (or, at least, a question I seek to get closer to answering by way of this discussion). There are many here at PerlMonks who know great gobs more about OOP and inheritance-like mechanisms than I, and I seek their (your) wisdom.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-397229"> <p align="left"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td align="left"><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);</b></font></td></tr></table></td> <td align="right">- <font color="#0000ff">a</font><font color="#3355ff">p</font><font color="#6688ff">o</font><font color="#99bbff">t</font><font color="#99bbff">h</font><font color="#6688ff">e</font><font color="#3355ff">o</font><font color="#0000ff">n</font> <br /> [http://ccd.apotheon.org|CopyWrite] Chad Perrin</td></tr></table></p> </div></div> 565581 565609