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Re^3: Altering the inheritance path of an object

by Dallaylaen (Chaplain)
on Sep 28, 2012 at 12:05 UTC ( [id://996190]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Altering the inheritance path of an object
in thread Altering the inheritance path of an object

I would suggest creating an empty subclass then:
package Test::It; our @ISA = qw(Package::Under::Test Utility::Subs); 1; # ... later, in another file my $under_test = Test::It->new(...);
This way any method is first searched in the Package::Under::Test's hierarchy and only then in Utility::Subs.

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Re^4: Altering the inheritance path of an object
by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Sep 28, 2012 at 12:16 UTC

    For my (possibly unrelated ...?) purposes, it would need to be being able to build a more isolated test case situation, especially for adding instrumentation to an existing, complex but poorly-designed class structure ... without significantly changing the crufty old code, if at all.

    I have noticed that heavily class-based code over time can wind up having a lot of “side effects,” for lack of a more proper term, which can make it difficult to deduce exactly which code-path is being taken.   And, when you don’t yet really know whether any particular one of those paths are or are not reliable, that’s a big deal, at least in my situation.   (I mostly deal with legacy code ... eight years old or more ... stuff that stinks but drives businesses.)   I don’t want to “hijack” this particular thread into that direction, though, but I’m interested.

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